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Georges Perec
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Life: A User's Manual (the original title is La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec 's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by David Bellos in 1987. Its title page describes it as 'novels', in the plural, the reasons for which become apparent on reading. Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times. 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. Life: A User's Manual (the original title is La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec 's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by David Bellos in 1987. Its title page describes it as 'novels', in the plural, the reasons for which become apparent on reading. May 15, 1978 Life: A User's Manual 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. Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of. Life: A User's Manual is the magnum opus of one of the most startlingly inventive and original novelists who ever lived. The French polymath Georges Perec, an associate of the Oulipo collective, once wrote a full-length novel without ever using the letter 'e', then he wrote one in which 'e' is the only vowel employed at all. Review of Georges Perec: Life a User's Manual. Life A User's Manual is a book for readers, and the more you have read the more you will appreciate the subtle references to other novels and popular culture. But to say so would do injustice to a book that is quite simply a marvel to read.
In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of every more unlikely tales, which range from an avenging murderer to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime…
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