Life: A User's Manual
by:
Georges Perec (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781448112791 (1448112796)
Publish date: April 24th 2012
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 608
Edition language: English
We begin. We turn to the first page, and we find ourselves already placed, not only on location but in the location. We are in one of the public areas. It is not, however, the entrance hall, the first of these areas which would be encountered were we to follow the logic of entering buildings. Then a...
Mr. Perec's "Life: A User's Manual" has no protagonist. Except for, maybe, the building. The 10 story apartment building at 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier, Paris, France. The building and its stairs, elevator, floors, basements, attic, apartments, bedrooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and every fu...
Zawsze fascynowały mnie rysunki dla dzieci, na których przedstawiano "przekrojony dom" i można było podglądać co robią ludzie. Perec opisał taki przekrój, rozciągając go dodatkowo w obszarze czasu. Podobno miał listę słów, które musi użyć, w każdym rozdziale miała się znaleźć jakaś inna czynność, op...
Puckish, intriguing, challenging. Perec bases his narrative on the inhabitants of a Parisian apartment, moving from one room to another, teasing out connections between the people he describes and peppering his prose with little puzzles and anecdotes. In my list of top experimental fiction: http://l...
To that old imponderable question, "If you were going to be stranded on a desert island, and you could only take one book with you...?" I now have my answer. Because I think that it would probably take decades of rereading to completely exhaust this book. It's not that it's full of lofty or difficu...
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