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Georges Perec (French: [ʒoʁʒ peʁɛk]; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust .
Georges Perec (born March 7, 1936, Paris, France—died March 3, 1982, Ivry) was a French writer, often called the greatest innovator of form of his generation. Perec was orphaned at an early age: his father was killed in action in World War II, and his mother died in a concentration camp.
Jul 16, 2019 · Paul Grimstad on the French author George Perec, whose formally and thematically inventive works included “Life: A User’s Manual,” “Things: A Story of the Sixties,” and “A Void.”.
Georges Perec est un écrivain, poète et verbicruciste français né le 7 mars 1936 à Paris 19e et mort le 3 mars 1982 à Ivry-sur-Seine ( Val-de-Marne ). Membre de l' Oulipo à partir de 1967 1, il fonde ses œuvres sur l'utilisation de contraintes formelles, littéraires ou mathématiques, qui marquent son style 2 .
Jan 4, 2013 · Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.
Life: A User's Manual (original title La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by David Bellos in 1987. Its title page describes it as "novels", in the plural, the reasons for which become apparent on reading.
Georges Perec has 137 books on Goodreads with 150447 ratings. Georges Perec’s most popular book is Life: A User's Manual.
