Georges Perec
Author
Series
Verba Mundi volume 18
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses. Structured around a single moment in time - 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 - Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, like an onion being peeled, and extraordinary rich...
2) A void
Author
Series
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best friends scour his diary for clues to his whereabouts. At first glance these pages reveal nothing but Vowl's penchant for word games, especially for compositions in which the use of a particular letter is suppressed. But as the friends work out Vowl's verbal puzzles, and as they investigate...
Author
Series
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Here, in one volume, are three "easy pieces" by the master of the verbal firecracker and Gallic wit. The novella "The Exeter Text" contains all those e's that were omitted from A Void (Perec hated waste) and no other vowel (honest). In "Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard?" we are introduced to Sergeant Henri Pollak and his vehicle (the aforementioned moped) that carried him between Vincennes and Montparnasse; in "A...
Series
Criterion collection volume 446
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
After living alone with his daughter for years, a widower must learn how to let her go, letting her be free to move on with her life, by arranging a marriage for her.