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Life: a User's Manual

Life: a User's Manual( )
Author: Perec, Georges
Translator: Bellos, David
Series title:Verba Mundi International Literature Ser.
ISBN:978-1-56792-556-2
Publication Date:Jul 2009
Publisher:David R. Godine Publisher
Imprint:Verba Mundi
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $17.99
Book Description:

The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" (Boston Globe). Structured around a single moment in time--8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975--Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is revealed in a series of tales that are...
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Pages:617
Author Biography
Perec, Georges (Author)
Georges Perec was born in Paris on March 7, 1936 and was educated in Claude-Bernard and Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire.

Perec was a parachutist in the French Military before he began publishing his writing in magazines like Partisans. Perec also wrote the book, Life: A Users Manual. Perec is noted for his constrained writing: his 300-page novel La disparition (1969) is a lipogram, written without ever using the letter "e". Perec won the Prix Renaudot in 1965, the Prix Jean Vigo in 1974, the Prix Médicis in 1978.

Georges Perec died on March 3, 1982.

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