Georges Perec - Böcker

»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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»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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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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»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 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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»Georges Perec är en av världens mest väsentliga litterära personligheter.« | Italo Calvino En ung man - som möjligen heter Karatjoff, men också kan tänkas gå under en hel rad liknande namn - blir till sin stora förtvivlan inkallad till krigstjäns...

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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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'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies a...

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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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»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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Rummets rymder är en samling texter i så skilda genrer som fiktiv prosa, dikt, gåta, lista, citat, brev, anekdot, essä och intervju. Med bländande lekfullhet och skärpa utforskar Georges Perec en mängd perspektiv som väcker vår djupt sovande fördo...

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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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»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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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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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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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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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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Three works of short fiction by Georges Perec. "One of the most singular literary personalities in the world."--Italo Calvino Georges Perec's mastery of absurdist fiction are on full display in this collection. As Richard Eder in The Los...

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A mind-bending novel from the author of Life A User's Manual A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of displays Georges Perec's virtuosity as a verb...

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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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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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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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'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available in English to UK readers for the first time, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbe...

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The inimitable Georges Perec weaves together memories of a childhood in post-war France, while posing wider questions about memory and nostalgia.'Perec is serious fun'The GuardianBoth an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memo...

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Written by a mathematician, a poet, and a mathematician-poet, this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France (and thereby introduced the centuries-old game of strategy into that count...

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De temps a autre, il est bon qu'un poete, que n'effraie pas l'air raréfié des cimes, ose s'élever au-dessus du vulgaire pour, dans un souffle épique, exalter notre aujourd'hui. Car ne nous y trompons pas : ces courageux jeunes gens qui, au plus fo...

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