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Georges Perec : A Life in Words, A Biography by David Bellos - DRG HCDJ 1994
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- 9780879239800
- Book Title
- Georges Perec : Alife in Words
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Godine Publisher, David R.
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 2.5 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Literary
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 49.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
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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 linguistic mastery actually extended to a stunning variety of forms: from autobiography, drama, and criticism to crossword puzzles and the world's longest palindrome. Ever in search of new verbal challenges, he wrote one novel entirely without the letter e; and in 1978 he published the monumental, structurally complex Life A User's Manual , which many critics have placed (in the words of The Boston Globe ) "on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov." In Georges Perec: A Life in Words , David Bellos, Perec's award-winning English translator, introduces the enigmatic figure behind these remarkable works, showing how Perec's experiences led to such masterpieces as Life , the celebrated Things , and the harrowing W or The Memory of Childhood -- the latter inspired by his parents' deaths during World War II (one of them at Aucshwitz) and by his own sense of guilt as a survivor. Using unpublished documents and firsthand interviews, Bellos details Perec's tragic childhood, his difficult apprenticeship, his emergence into literary renown, and finally his death from cancer at age 46. He traces the influences of Perec's Polish-Jewish background, and of the friendships--with such figures as Calvino, Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, and others--that helped shape this extraordinary life. He offers insights, born of many years' reflection and study, into Perec's vertiginous works. He situates the writer as a primary figure of French intellectual life in the 1960s and 1970s, due in part to his collaborations with the radically inventive OuLiPo group (whose name condenses the emblematic phrase "Workshop of Potential Literature"). And Bellos shows the painstaking process by which a phenomenally gifted writer, suffering from a crippling emotional burden, reconstructed his life in the only way he knew how: in words.
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Godine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-10
0879239808
ISBN-13
9780879239800
eBay Product ID (ePID)
926769
Product Key Features
Book Title
Georges Perec : Alife in Words
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
1994
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
832 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
2.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
49.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pq2676.E67.Z53 1993
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Praise for George Perec: A Life In Words "An overwhelmingly human portrait, as vivid as it is complex, not only of Perec but of...Paris intellectual life in the 60s and 70s."--Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
Copyright Date
1993
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Lccn
93-011604
Dewey Decimal
848.9/14/09
Dewey Edition
21
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