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Life by Georges Perec (1988, Paperback, Reprint)
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Author: Georges Perec
Publisher: David R Godine Pub
Publication Date: 1988-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0879237511
ISBN-13: 9780879237516
Product ID: EPID400584
Description: Georges Perec states, "I have imagined a building that has its facade removed so that all its rooms on the street side are visible." In Perec's novel structured around this idea, Percy Bartlebooth has devoted his life to the production o...
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| Synopsis Georges Perec states, "I have imagined a building that has its facade removed so that all its rooms on the street side are visible." In Perec's novel structured around this idea, Percy Bartlebooth has devoted his life to the production of 500 watercolors illustrating his travels throughout the world. Gaspard Winckler is commissioned to make jigsaw puzzles from them--puzzles which Bartlebooth will assemble and then destroy. These two characters are observed by a third, an artist who is in the process of painting the facade-less building in which they live. Georges Perec was an important member of the Oulipo, the French literary movement that put formal restrictions on writing, of which the most famous example is Perec's novel A VOID written without the letter "e." LIFE, A USER'S MANUAL, is also an impeccably Oulipean text, making use of such formal devices as the Graeco-Latin bi-square and the Knight's Tour.
Publisher's Note Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block. Industry Reviews Italo Calvino New York Times Book Review - Paul Auster | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||||||||
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