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A Void by Georges Perec (tr from French Gilbert Adair)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, chock-full of plots and subplots, shows the skill of both aut ...Show more
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Georges Perec
9.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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 and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these vi ...Show more
I Remember by Georges Perec
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Translated into English for the first time, this is Georges Perec's unique, puzzling, and often imitated memoir. At once an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring pointillist autobiography, Georges Perec's / Remember is the last of this essential writer's major works to be translated in ...Show more
Life - A User's Manual by Georges Perec
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This marvellous book is one of the most ingenious works of modern fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to create 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 ...Show more
Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic ...Show more
Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
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 strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic ...Show more
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
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 lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.
THREE BY PEREC WHICH MOPED WITH CHROME-P by Georges Perec
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 "easy pieces" by the master of the verbal firecracker and Ga ...Show more
W or The Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to ...Show more
Wishes by Georges Perec
34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
“In the beginning was the pun,” Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best wishes for the New Year. Wishes gathers together these ten pamphlets of homophonic wordplay that Perec sent o ...Show more
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