Böcker av Georges Perec

»Georges Perec är en av världens mest väsentliga litterära personligheter.« | Italo Calvino Noam Vokaal har försvunnit, knappast spårlöst, men likväl är han borta. Anförda av vännen Amaury Conson och polisman Ottavio Ottaviani börjar Vokaals förtr...

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»Perec roar sig med att härma dussintals andra stilar och genrer från fem århundraden, och han gör det med en bravur som tvingat den svenske översättaren Sture Pyk till virtuosa prestationer. Mitt i all tvångsmässig systematik och alla kurragömmal...

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»Georges Perec är en av världens mest väsentliga litterära personligheter.« | Italo Calvino »Problemet är inte att skapa rummet, ännu mindre att omskapa det (det finns i dag alltför många välmenande människor som funderar över vår omgivning), utan...

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Det unga paret Sylvie och Jérôme fyller sina tomma parisverklighet med så många av sextiotalet åtråvärda saker som möjligt: djupfrysta rätter, tjocka badkappor, knivar med hornskaft, divaner i ljusbrun sammet. Tingen [ Les Choses ] är Georges Pere...

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1970, mitt under en personlig kris, bestämmer sig språkmästaren Georges Perec för att återskapa sin barndomsfantasi om W, en isolerad ö utanför Eldslandet, där de olympiska idealen råder. Gradvis formulerar han också minnet av sin verkliga, smärts...

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In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives...

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»Ellis Island är för mig själva platsen för exilen, det vill säga, platsen för frånvaron av platser, ickeplatsen, ingenstans.« Georges Perec Efter att det länge i praktiken varit fritt fram att ta sig in i USA begränsades immigrationen i slutet av...

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»En vacker, brusten och melankolisk barndoms¿skildring av en av det franska språkets absoluta mästare.« DN »Träffsäkert, komiskt och klaustrofobiskt och, så här i en självbiografisk inramning från krigsåren: fullkomligt hjärtskärande.« SYDSVENSKAN...

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»Tveklöst en av de vackraste databaser i bokform som jag känner till.« | Jesper Olsson, Svenska Dagbladet »Performanceromanen Jag minns hör tveklöst till ett av författarskapets höjdpunkter. Snabbläst, ganska meningslöst och fullständigt oemotstån...

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»Georges Perec är en av världens mest väsentliga litterära personligheter.« | Italo Calvino »En djupt drabbande gestaltning av det depressiva tillståndet.« | Ola Wihlke, Bear Books »Du är tjugofem år och har tjugonio tänder, tre skjortor och åtta ...

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Celebrated as the man who wrote an entire novel without using the letter 'e', and another in the form of a vast jigsaw puzzle, Georges Perec found humour - and pathos - in the human need for arrangement and classification. The essays in Thoughts o...

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One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Pla...

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Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow. This virtuoso story, choc...

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so having weighed the pros and cons you've decided to approach your boss to ask for that well-earned raise in salary but before you schedule the all-important meeting you decide to dip into this handy volume in the hope of finding some valuable ti...

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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...

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Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf...

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Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightnes...

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Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction writers ...

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Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction writers ...

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On of France's most important contemporary artists, Christian Boltanski came to prominence with major exhibitions at such important international venues at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1984) and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, (1990). For his ...

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Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has stray...

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so having weighed the pros and cons you've decided to approach your boss to ask for that well-earned raise in salary but before you schedule the all-important meeting you decide to dip into this handy volume in the hope of finding some valuable ti...

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In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives...

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Two trailblazing novels by Georges Perec, Things: Jerome and Sylvie, the young upwardly mobile couple, lust for the good life. They wanted life's enjoyment, but this equated to ownership. A Man Asleep: A nameless student attempts to purify himself...

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Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity.

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Perec has rightfully assumed his position in the pantheon of truly original writers of the past century. Godine has issued all but one is his books in this country, including his masterpiece Life A User's Manual. Here, in one volume, are three &qu...

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Originally published in French in 1978 as La Vie mode d'emploi by Editions Hachette Litterature, Paris--T.p. verso."

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