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This selection of non-fictional work from the author of Life, a User's Manual, demonstrates Georges Perec's characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.

One Of The Most Dazzling And Ingeniously Contrived Works Of Twentieth-Century Fiction, An Entire Microcosm Brought To Life In A Paris Apartment Block. Serge Val-Ne, One Of The Inhabitants Of The Apartment Block, Has Conceived The Idea Of A Painting Which Will Show In Exact Detail The Inside Of Each Apartment Within The Building, Every Person, Every Object. As He Thinks Of His Picture, He Contemplates The Lives Of All The People He Has Ever Known Or Heard About In Sixty Years Living There. Chapter By Chapter, Room By Room, The Narrative Moves Around The Building, Revealing As It Does So A Marvellously Diverse Cast Of Characters In A Series Of Ever More Unlikely Tales, Which Range From An Avenging Murderer To An Eccentric English Millionaire Who Has Devised The Ultimate Pastime-

Through lyrical prose and reflective inventories, the narrative captures the experiences of sixteen million immigrants who arrived in America between 1890 and 1954. Drawing on his own tragic past, Perec explores themes of chance, exile, and identity, portraying Ellis Island as a symbol of displacement and longing for belonging. This work stands out as a poignant meditation on the immigrant experience, highlighting the struggles against intolerance and poverty that drive individuals from their homelands.

Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.

A hilarious and inventive office-drone odyssey. - Bookforum Its wit and comedy encourage compulsive consumption. -David O'Neill, Barnes and Noble Review We readers will have to deal with the fortunate burden of clearing shelf-space for another novel by Perec this spring, with the first English translation of The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise . -Most Anticipated Books of 2011, The Millions As a witty indictment of corporate culture and an artifact from one of the 20th century's most bizarre literary movements, The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise -as with all the works of Georges Perec-is a puzzle too absurd not to explore ... [it] will interest any reader who has ever worked in a large bureaucracy and considered himself underpaid. -James K. McAuley, Harvard Crimson Perec's novels are games, each different. They are played for real stakes and in some cases breathtakingly large ones. As games should be, and as literary games often are not, they are fun. - Los Angeles Times We defy you to walk by this book and not pick it up. Perfectly packaged and immediately intriguing! - A Largehearted WORD Book of the Week A brilliant ... conceptual, comedic novella from the writer who wrote the postmodern masterpiece Life: A User's Manual . - City Arts An acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work. - Arthur Perec's knack for absurdity and circumlocution ensures that each iteration is novel and urgent. - Full Stop [A] fun read for someone who enjoys computer programming and corporate irony, and would make a perfect gift for the office mate with a good sense of humor. - bestdamncreativewritingblog [A] terribly compelling work, one that does a great deal with very little. With his use of repetition, which also evokes a pre-set mechanism, Perec establishes a rhythm of sorts, while his subtle deviations from the pattern serve as moments of dark comedy. - Slant Magazine Certainly something different, and quite enjoyable. - Complete Review

Combining inventive fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world, and at the crux of his own identity.

A slim volume featuring Georges Perec's writings on the simple task of arranging books and what it can reveal about lifeOne of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language, he discusses different ways of reading, a list of the things he really must do before he dies and the power of words to overcome the chaos of the world.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and upended them. Now Penguin brings you a new set of the acclaimed Great Ideas, a curated library of selections from the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available in English to UK readers for the first time, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with 'I remember', Perec records a stream of individual memories of a childhood in post-war France, while posing wider questions about memory and nostalgia. As playful and puzzling as the best of his novels, I Remember is an ode to life: the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the sometimes trivial, as seen through the eyes of the irreplaceable Georges Perec.

As much a masterpiece of translation as a novel, 'A Void' contains not one single letter e anywhere in the main body of the text. This clever and unusual novel is full of plots and sub-plots, of trails in pursuit of trails and linguistic conjuring tricks.

Les deux volumes de cette édition rassemblent les œuvres majeures de Georges Perec, un écrivain français reconnu pour son approche innovante et ludique du langage et de la narration. À travers ses textes, Perec explore des thèmes variés tels que la mémoire, l'identité, et la vie quotidienne, souvent en utilisant des structures formelles rigoureuses et des contraintes littéraires. Parmi ses œuvres emblématiques, on trouve "La Vie mode d'emploi", qui dépeint la vie d'un immeuble parisien à travers les histoires entrelacées de ses habitants, illustrant la complexité des relations humaines et des récits individuels. "Les Choses" examine la consommation et le matérialisme à travers les yeux d'un couple, tandis que "W ou le souvenir d'enfance" mêle autobiographie et fiction en explorant les souvenirs d'enfance de l'auteur et une utopie dystopique. Perec utilise souvent des jeux de mots, des listes et des descriptions minutieuses pour engager le lecteur dans une réflexion sur le quotidien et l'art de raconter. Cette collection offre une vue d'ensemble de son œuvre, mettant en lumière son style unique et son impact sur la littérature contemporaine.