Books by Georges Perec
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review 1: the problem with geniuses that died too young, is that we're forced to confront their lesser works, often doled out questionable packages. alas, I loved this piece, but it belongs in a collection of short works, not on its own. it's interesting having recently read Bernhard's "Co...
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review 1: An interesting exercise in Georges Perec observing everything from Place Saint-Suplice in Paris over a three day period in October 1974. He exhaustively records colors, buses, people passing by, the different angles of vision, just about everything except the grand, historic and ...
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review 1: Written in the 1960s, this short story is still incredibly relevant to today. Undertaken as a sort of experiment (what Perec work isn't, though?) of an algorithm used to ask your boss for a raise, this story is written without punctuation or capitalization which makes it seem, er...
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review 1: Firmly entrenched in his oulipo methodologies, this is not his masterpiece of Life a User's Manual or A Void nor was it meant to be �����however, what it is is a not so quiet meditation on the experience of Paris and most deliciously important, a look inside the process of Perec....