An attempt at exhausting a place in paris by georges perec source. This is the first complete biography of georges perec, novelist, poet, verbal gamesman, master puzzler a man at once eccentric, brilliant, and endearingly ordinary, whom italo calvino called so singular a literary personality that he bears absolutely no resemblance to anyone else perec s novels are widely regarded as modern classics, but his. It was translated into english by gilbert adair, with the. Rencontres avec georges perec archive ina ina culture. Publication date 1969 topics pdf collection opensource language french. His father died as a soldier early in the second world war and his mother was murdered in the holocaust, and many of his works deal with absence. A story of the sixties, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial. A void translated from the french by gilbert adair. About the author 2008 georges perec 193682 won the prix renaudot in 1965 for his first novel things.
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