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Georges Perec, Rob Halpern - General Line, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2028

General Line

Georges Perec's Early Essays on Art and Politics

Av Georges Perec, Rob Halpern

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In these essays, Perec forges a new critical discourse faithful to radical imperatives, while remaining independent of the French Communist Party, and at some remove from Jean-Paul Sartre, who had dominated the Left's understanding of literature's relation to politics since the Liberation. These bold essays traverse topics as diverse as Alain Robbe-Grillet's "New Novel" and Sartre's pursuit of a "committed literature" to Alban Berg's Wozzeck, Free Jazz, Science Fiction, and more. Set against a background of domestic division and geopolitical instability in France, Perec provides an exciting pathway to imagine new worlds and methods of collective organising and action. In this edition, editor Rob Halpern provides a key historical context for understanding Perec as both a political actor and cultural mover. Taking its name from the Sergei Eisenstein film, the essays in the collection highlight an early, politically motivated Perec. They reveal not only a hidden side of the endlessly fascinating writer, but also the wider cultural imperative of the twentieth century Left. This is Perec as we've never seen him before, effortlessly expanding beyond aesthetics to the sphere of political action.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2028-02-01
  • Mått: 140 x 210 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 200 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Verso Books
  • ISBN: 9781839768910
  • Översättare: Rob Halpern
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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 Médicis and established Perec's international reputation.Rob Halpern is Professor of Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University. He coordinates The Writers' Bloc, a poetry writing workshop inside Huron Valley Women's Prison. His books include Music for Porn (Nightboat 2012) and Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World (Kenning Editions 2021).

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