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Georges Perec
Three works of short fiction by Georges Perec. One of the most singular literary personalities in the world. –Italo Calvino
Georges Perec’s mastery of absurdist fiction are on full display…
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A collection of essays by an aburdist master attempting to define the ways we define our place in the world.
Georges Perec investigates his experience of the world through listmaking…
From the author of Life A User’s Manual comes an equally mind-bending novel: an interpretive vision of the Holocaust and a dystopian world.
W or The Memory of Childhood is…
Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old…
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Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through…
Two trailblazing novels by Georges Perec, Things: Jerome and Sylvie, the young upwardly mobile couple, lust for the good life. They wanted life’s enjoyment, but this equated to ownership. A…
Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of every more unlikely tales, which range from an avenging murderer…
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Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec’s…
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Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl’s past starts to…
