Things: A Story of the Sixties/a Man Asleep - Couverture rigide

Perec, Georges

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0879238577 ISBN 13 : 9780879238575

Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Perec Georges Bellos David Leak Andrew

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Georges Perec (1936-82) won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 for his first novel Things: A Story of the Sixties, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial to the deeply personal. He composed acrostics, anagrams, autobiography, criticism, crosswords, descriptions of dreams, film scripts, heterograms, lipograms, memories, palindromes, plays, poetry, radio plays, recipes, riddles, stories short and long, travel notes, univocalics, and, of course, novels. Life: A User's Manual, which draws on many of Perec's other works, appeared in 1978 after nine years in the making and was acclaimed a masterpiece to put beside Joyce's Ulysses. It won the Prix Medicis and established Perec's international reputation.

Quatrième de couverture :

'Required reading for anyone interested in the evolution of this modern master' Andrew Motion, Observer

Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation.

In A Man Asleep, a young student embarks upon a disturbing and exhaustive pursuit of indifference, following his experience in non-existence with relentless logic.

TRANSLATED BY DAVID BELLOS AND ANDREW LEAK

See also: W or the Memory of Childhood

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0879238577
• ISBN 13: 9780879238575
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224