The Quarantine Tapes: Quotation Shorts - Georges Perec
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Georges Perec, (born March 7, 1936, Paris, France—died March 3, 1982, Ivry) was a French writer, often called the greatest innovator of form of his generation. Perec was orphaned at an early age: his father was killed in action in World War II, and his mother died in a concentration camp. He was reared by an aunt and uncle and eventually attended the Sorbonne for several years. His best-selling novel Les Choses: une histoire des années soixante (1965; Things: A Story of the Sixties) concerns a young Parisian couple whose personalities are consumed by their material goods. In 1967 he joined the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). Known in short as Oulipo, the group dedicated itself to the pursuit of new forms for literature and the revival of old ones, and it had a profound impact on the direction of Perec’s writing.
Perec’s novel La Disparition (1969; A Void) was written entirely without using the letter e, as was its translation. A companion piece of sorts appeared in 1972 with the novella Les Revenentes (“The Ghosts”; published in English as The Exeter Text [1996]), in which every word has only e as its vowel. W; ou, le souvenir d’enfance (1975; W; or, The Memory of Childhood) is considered a masterpiece of innovative autobiography, using alternating chapters to tell two stories that ultimately converge. By far his most ambitious and most critically acclaimed novel is La Vie: mode d’emploi (1978; Life: A User’s Manual), which describes each unit in a large Parisian apartment building and relates the stories of its inhabitants.
From https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Perec.
For more information about Georges Perec:
“The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec”: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-absolute-originality-of-georges-perec
“Why Curators and Artists Love the Complex Literature of Georges Perec”: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/author-georges-perec-art-1120154
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