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Georges Perec
Author profile
born
in Paris, France
March 07, 1936
died
March 03, 1982
gender
male
genre
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Life A User's Manual
by Georges Perec, David Bellos — published 1978 — 47 editions |
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A Void
by Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair — published 1969 — 17 editions |
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
by Georges Perec, John Sturrock — published 1964 — 18 editions |
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W, or the Memory of Childhood
by Georges Perec, David Bellos — published 1975 — 17 editions |
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Things: A Story of the Sixties; A Man Asleep
by Georges Perec, David Bellos , Andrew Leak — published 1965 — 18 editions |
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Un homme qui dort
— published 1967 — 19 editions |
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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
by Georges Perec, Marc Lowenthal — published 1975 — 8 editions |
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The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
— published 1968 — 16 editions |
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Quel petit vélo à guidon chromé au fond de la cour ?
— published 1966 — 7 editions |
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Three By Perec
— published 1996 — 2 editions |
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“What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why?
Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.”
― Georges Perec, L'infra Ordinaire
Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.”
― Georges Perec, L'infra Ordinaire
“As the hours, the days, the weeks, the seasons slip by, you detach yourself from everything. You discover, with something that sometimes almost resembles exhilaration, that you are free. That nothing is weighing you down, nothing pleases or displeases you. You find, in this life exempt from wear and tear and with no thrill in it other than these suspended moments, in almost perfect happiness, fascinating, occasionally swollen by new emotions. You are living in a blessed parenthesis, in a vacuum full of promise, and from which you expect nothing. You are invisible, limpid, transparent. You no longer exist. Across the passing hours, the succession of days, the procession of the seasons, the flow of time, you survive without joy and without sadness. Without a future and without a past. Just like that: simply, self evidently, like a drop of water forming on a drinking tap on a landing.”
― Georges Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties; A Man Asleep
― Georges Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties; A Man Asleep
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