Set in a Paris apartment block, this novel describes in minute detail the lives of the inhabitants and the apartments they inhabit at a specific moment in time.[...]
A novel that dispenses with the normal rules for literary composition.
A story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'.[...]
Written in alternating chapters, "W or the Memory of Childhood" tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatche[...]
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 non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.[...]
Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction writers today, Perec used formal constraints to dazzling effe[...]
"Situation Awareness Analysis and Measurement" provides a comprehensive overview of different approaches to the measurement of situation awareness in experimental and applied settings. Creating system designs and training programs to enhance situation awareness is a key goal in the development of sy[...]
Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigma[...]
Georges Perec (1936-82) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and Rowan Wilken is Associate Professor essayist. This collection of 14 essays asks how Perec has continued to influence of Media and Communication at us after his death. Swinburne University ofTechnology. What do Perec's descri[...]
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 Man Asleep: A nameless student attempts to purify himself entirely of material desires and ambitions.[...]
"Originally published in French in 1978 as La Vie mode d'emploi by Editions Hachette Litterature, Paris"--T.p. verso.[...]
Translated into English for the first time, this is Georges Perec's unique, puzzling, and often imitated memoir. At once an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring pointillist autobiography, Georges Perec's / Remember is the last of this essential writer's major works to be translate[...]
"It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times. Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994. George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the m[...]
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisParu chez Julliard en septembre 1965, Les Choses, premier livre publie de Georges Perec (1936-1982), couronne par le prix Renaudot, connut un grand succes et valut a son auteur une notoriete immediate.Une fiche de lecture specialement c[...]
«Den kommer antagelig til å bli stående som et av det 20. århundres mest kraftfulle uttrykk, sammen med Prosessen, På sporet av den tapte tid og Ulysses.» Kjell Olaf Jensen, DagsavisenLivet bruksanvisning, med undertittelen «Romaner», er en mektig bok på alle måter. Den leder leseren gjenn[...]
I ejendommen 11, Rue Simon-Crubellier har livet sat sig spor. I hver en krog, i hver en ting venter en historie. I 99 kapitler fortælles hundredvis af historier om livet i Paris og andre steder på jorden. Bizarre, dagligdags, bevægende, usædvanlige, morsomme og triste historier. Malere o[...]
Priya Wadhera's Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol is the first book to explore striking similarities between the works of these celebrated figures of the twentieth century. Copies abound in Perec's oeuvre, where pastiches, paintings, and intertexts dialogue with the history of copying[...]
Rummets rymder är en samling texter i så skilda genrer som fiktiv prosa, dikt, gåta, lista, citat, brev, anekdot, essä och intervju. Med bländande lekfullhet och skärpa utforskar Georges Perec en mängd perspektiv som väcker vår djupt sovande fördom om rummet som något universellt självkl[...]