4:02 am in Europe, France, Perec, Georges, fiction | 2 Comments
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.
4:09 am in Europe, France, Perec, Georges, Recommended, fiction | 2 Comments
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.