Perec

At best this seems to suggest that American writers are simply energetic primitives, at worst that the likes of Wallace and Vollmann are "manly" writers, while Perec is some sort of pantywaist.

Art and Culture 2010

Invited by Raymond Queneau to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers, he met Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production.

August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

The "great compendium," as Perec called it, thus consists of three squares, the last one slightly defective.

Trial by Letter for a Translator David Bellos 2011

In Chapter 51 of Perec's masterpiece, "Life A User's Manual" 1978, the character Valène imagines a painting of the apartment house in which he lives with its façade removed, showing all its street-side rooms with their contents and the characters who lived there.

Trial by Letter for a Translator David Bellos 2011

W, or The Memory of Childhood (by Georges Perec) 10.

David Mitchell’s Top Ten Novels and More 2009

Considering the incredible imagination shown in stories by so many people AROUND THE WORLD that could fall into the science fiction or speculative fiction section of the library -- even if many of them might not think of themselves that way, I'm putting Borges and Perec in this category -- I am appalled that the editor and publisher stopped with only 21 stories. 21 is Blackjack, not a collection worthy of being called Mammoth.

TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

He is a professional translator mostly of classy Europeans like Georges Perec and Ismail Kadare and would be briskly dismissive of my Russian friend's despair.

Lost and Found In Translation Lee Sandlin 2011

"Wo men and Men" in truth, for all the understandable comparisons the novel has drawn to Gaddis et al., has a more direct connection to Georges Perec's "Life: A User's Manual"—both involve characters whose connection is geographical rather than relational.

A Guidebook Through An Impossible Oeuvre Mark Kamine 2011

Invited by Raymond Queneau to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers, he met Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production.

italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

W, or The Memory of Childhood (by Georges Perec) 10.

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