David Bellos is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton where he also chairs the Department of French and Italian. He won the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie for Georges Perec: A Life In Words. He also won the IBM-France prize for his translation of Perec's Life A User's Manual. He has translated W or The Memory of Childhood, Things: A Sotry of the Sixties and "53 Days", all major works by Georges Perec, as well as several works by the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare.

"Elegantly written and illustrated, brilliantly illuminating about the work... This is a book of which Jacques Tati... would surely approve" -- Margot Norman Literary Review "A handsome tribute to a comic creator whose craft was an art which turned a delight in human absurdity into the most accessible from of sanity" -- David Coward Times Literary Supplement

David Bellos is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton where he also chairs the Department of French and Italian. He won the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie for Georges Perec: A Life In Words. He also won the IBM-France prize for his translation of Perec's Life A User's Manual. He has translated W or The Memory of Childhood, Things: A Sotry of the Sixties and "53 Days", all major works by Georges Perec, as well as several works by the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare.

"Elegantly written and illustrated, brilliantly illuminating about the work... This is a book of which Jacques Tati... would surely approve" -- Margot Norman Literary Review "A handsome tribute to a comic creator whose craft was an art which turned a delight in human absurdity into the most accessible from of sanity" -- David Coward Times Literary Supplement