Perec, Georges

Things & A Man Asleep

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Things & A Man Asleep

Things: A Story of the ‘60
A Man Asleep
by Georges Perec (1965)

Two stories of opposing youthful indulgences in futile escape from life.


A Void

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A Void

by Georges Perec (1969)

Born out of self-imposed formalist grid of lipogram, a parody thriller loaded with plots and subplots, pursuits, vengeance and trails, engrossing and well-written despite the missing ‘e’ letter throughout the whole novel.


W, or The memory of childhood

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W, or The memory of childhood

by Georges Perec (1975)

A book of two alternating texts, one an imaginary adventure story, the other consisting of autobiographic fragments of wartime childhood.


Life: A User’s Manual

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Life: A User’s Manual

by Georges Perec (1978)

A quilt of stories of inhabitants of a Parisian apartment block, frozen in time. The layered stories are interwoven with hundreds of lives, minutiae of details, literary and historical allusions, written with self-imposed constraints.


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