Description
"One of the most significant literary personalities in the world."--Italo Calvino Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User's Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work, the first to appear in English, demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humor, and accessibility. As he contemplates the many ways in which we occupy the space around us, as he depicts the commonplace items with which we are familiar in a startling, engrossing way, as he recounts his psychoanalysis while remaining reticent about his feelings or depicts the Paris of his childhood without a trace of sentimentality, we become aware that we are in the presence of a remarkable, virtuoso writer.
Author: Georges Perec
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 03/20/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.41w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780141442242
ISBN10: 0141442247
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Philosophy | Essays
Author: Georges Perec
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 03/20/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.41w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780141442242
ISBN10: 0141442247
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Philosophy | Essays
About the Author
John Sturrock is a writer and critic who has previously translated Victor Hugo, Stendhal, and Rimbaud. A consulting editor at the London Review of Books, he lives in West Sussex, England