Of whom is John Updike writing here?
"What are we to make of him? The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated. In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterton, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, he has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place."
a. Jorge Luis Borges
b. Elias Canetti
c. Umberto Eco
d. Franz Kafka
e. Georges Perec
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"What are we to make of him? The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated. In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterton, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, he has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place."
a. Jorge Luis Borges
b. Elias Canetti
c. Umberto Eco
d. Franz Kafka
e. Georges Perec
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Georges Perec
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born
March 07, 1936
died
March 03, 1982
gender
male
place of birth
Paris, France
genre
Literature & Fiction
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Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group.
Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy
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Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec avg rating 4.29 — 403 ratings — published 1978 19 editions |
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A Void by Georges Perec avg rating 3.89 — 220 ratings — published 1990 12 editions |
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec avg rating 4.34 — 186 ratings — published 1974 5 editions |
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W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec avg rating 3.99 — 134 ratings — published 1982 8 editions |
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Things: A Story of the Sixties; A Man Asleep by Georges Perec avg rating 3.98 — 108 ratings — published 1990 4 editions |
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Les Choses by Georges Perec avg rating 3.91 — 58 ratings — published 1965 14 editions |
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53 Days by Georges Perec avg rating 3.62 — 24 ratings — published 1989 5 editions |
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Three by Perec by Georges Perec avg rating 3.95 — 20 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Quel Petit Velo a Guidon Chrome Au Fond De La Cour? by Georges Perec avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 1982 6 editions |
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Je ME Souviens by Georges Perec avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 1998 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)
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"Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le silence. Tu dois te déshabituer de tout: d'aller à la rencontre de ceux que si longtemps tu as côtoyés, de prendre tes repas, tes cafés à la place que chaque jour d'autres ont retenue pour toi, ont parfois défendue pour toi, de traîner dans la complicité fade des amitiés qui n'en finissent pas de se survivre, dans la rancoeur opportuniste et lâche des liaisons qui s'effilochent."
— Georges Perec (Un homme qui dort)
— Georges Perec (Un homme qui dort)
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