Showing posts with label Perec (Georges). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perec (Georges). Show all posts
16 June 2021

Georges Perec's Les Lieux d'une fugue (1978)

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For three years the young Georges Perec was living with his aunt Esther Bienenfeld and her husband David at a flat at 18 Rue de l'Assomp...
11 December 2015

Héléna Marienské: Le Degré suprême de la tendresse (2008)

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In the Prologue to Héléna Marienské's  Le Degré suprême de la tendresse  – the title being taken from the macho Salvador Dalí's ...
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6 November 2013

Georges Perec: Père Lachaise Columbarium #4

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'Esther BIENENFELD 1896–1974 –––––––––– Georges PEREC 1936–1982' The name above Perec's is his aunt's: his father...
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26 January 2012

Richard Ayodade's Submarine (2010), Joe Dunthorne, and an Oulipian digression

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Submarine is a coming-of-age story set in 1980s Swansea, Wales, and the socially inept 15-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) wants...
29 December 2011

Kenneth Goldsmith in The Believer, October 2011

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I'm a little late getting round to this article, but I think it's something I should make a note of as it's so challenging to ou...
16 February 2011

Georges Perec: Le voyage d'hiver (1979)

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Georges Perec's short story ' Le voyage d'hiver ' ('The Winter Journey') was originally published in 1979 in Sa...
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1 February 2011

Ian Monk's Homage to Georges Perec

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Below is a link to Ian Monk's homage (in English) to Georges Perec, and also contains his criticism of Adair's translation of Perec...
31 January 2011

Georges Perec's Les Choses (1965)

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Les choses: Une histoire des années soixante ( Things: A Story of the Sixties ) is about er, things, and - as if peripheral subjects - Jér...
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16 October 2008

Georges Perec's La Disparition (1969; trans. Adair as A Void, 1994)

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A Sort of Parody This is an odd book with a missing mark, a loss shouting loudly about its own lack, a howl of an orphan child, full...