Life: A User's Manual (English and French Edition) - Hardcover

Perec, Georges

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879237007 ISBN 13: 9780879237004

Publisher: David R Godine Pub, 1987

Synopsis

Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: David R Godine Pub
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0879237007
• ISBN 13: 9780879237004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 581