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	Georges Perec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Georges Perec (March 7, 1936 - March 3, 1982) was a 20th century French novelist, filmmaker and essayist, a member of the Oulipo group and considered by many to be one of the most important post-WWII authors.
		Perec was born in a working class neighbourhood in Paris, the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s.
		Perec was taken into the care of his paternal aunt and uncle in 1942, and in 1945 he was formally adopted by them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georges_Perec (1097 words)

	Scriptorium - George Perec
		Georges Perec was born in Paris (March 7, 1936), and died in Ivry (March 3, 1982).
		Perec, an orphan at six, was raised by his uncle and aunt.
		Perec was always reticent as regards to his private life, but in 1973 he published a book where he recounts 124 dreams he had between May 1968 and August 1972.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/perec.html (1113 words)

	CONTEXT: Warren Motte, Reading Georges Perec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Georges Perec is the finest French writer of the twentieth century.
		Perec himself spent the war years in a Catholic boarding school in the south of France, and after the war he went to live with the family of a paternal aunt.
		Georges Perec is perhaps best described as a literary experimentalist, one who was intrigued by the question of form.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no11/Motte.html (1626 words)

	Alibris: Georges Perec
		Georges Perec states, "I have imagined a building that has its facade removed so that all its rooms on the street side are visible." In Perec's novel structured around this idea, Percy Bartlebooth has devoted his life to the production of 500 watercolors illustrating his travels throughout the world.
		In Perec's extraordinary tour de force--written entirely without the use of the letter "e"--a group of people die or are otherwise eliminated as a result of their inability to "name the unnameable," i.e.
		This generous selection of Georges Perec's nonfiction, the first to appear in English, features ingenious contemplations on the ways in which we occupy urban and domestic space, engrossing accounts of his experiences with psychoanalysis, depictions of the Paris of his childhood, thought-provoking examinations of the "infra ordinary" -- the...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Perec,Georges (563 words)

	Species of Spaces and Other Pieces - Georges Perec
		Or, as Perec puts it in his foreword: "The subject of this book is not the void exactly, but rather what there is round about or inside it".
		What Perec manages to do is present all the facets of the mundane: his writing here is like those representations of three-dimensional figures on a computer screen, slowly turning to present unexpected sides -- a simple and yet still surprising trick.
		Autobiography -- and self-analysis, in all senses -- are a preoccupation for Perec, constantly repeated, whether in writing "I was born on 7.3.36" over and over or repeating other details (from the same or from varying points of view).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/perecg/speciess.htm (944 words)

	NEGATIVE
		Perec's father Idcek, or Izzie, was killed as a soldier during the German invasion of France in June 1940; his mother, Cyrla, was rounded up in Paris, and deported via Drancy to Auschwitz, where she was murdered.
		Georges Perec himself was sent on a Red Cross train to the safe haven of Villard-de-Lans, east of Grenoble—it would seem because of his status as an "orphelin de guerre"—or he almost certainly would have perished, as well.
		So when Perec says, "Je n'ai pas de souvenirs d'enfance" ("I have no memories of childhood"), he is not only referring obliquely to the holocaust and the destruction of an entire world inhabited by myriad living persons, he is also, I think, referring literally to the lack of almost any link to his early life.
	saber.towson.edu /~baker/negative.htm (2575 words)

	Georges Perec - Life. A User's Manual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But in the universe of Georges Perec everything is what it is, but nothing is what it seems.
		Perec reputedly spent three years working out all the rules that govern every chapter and the patchwork they constitute.
		As Perec writes in the last paragraph of the 99th chapter, a paragraph that brings me near tears whenever I reread it: ''It is the twenty-third of June nineteen seventy-five, and it is eight o'clock in the evening.
	www.ivarhagendoorn.com /personal/literature/perec.html (701 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Georges Perec: A Life in Words (Harvill Press Editions): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Georges Perec was one of the finest writers of the 20th century and yet his work remains relatively obscure.
		Georges Perec: a Life in Words is a fitting testimony to a writer we should all know better.
		A biography of Georges Perec, one of France's great 20th-century writers, who drew both on his Jewish cultural heritage and "l'esprit gaulois", with its undercurrent of subtle mockery and non-conformism.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1860466362 (746 words)

	Three - Georges Perec
		Perec manages to make a decent story out of it, and Monk captures at least the gist of Perec's rhetorical flourishes.
		Perec builds up a story around it, playing with many of his usual preoccupations -- art depicting art, forgery and authenticity, valuation, description.
		They are not truly typical, because Perec was, if anything, always atypical, impossible to pigeonhole, but they do show a variety of his abilities.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/perecg/three.htm (656 words)

	Georges Perec - Olympic Oulipian, and other stories
		On this day in 1982, the experimental French writer Georges Perec died, at the age of forty-five.
		Like Italo Calvino, Perec belonged to the "Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle" group, founded in 1960; translated, this would be "Workshop of Potential Literature," but the group is known internationally as OuLiPo, if only because of their enthusiasm for the lipogram.
		Lipogrammatically speaking, Perec began by writing a 466-word story excluding all vowels but "a." In 1969, he published La Disparition, a 100,000 word novel excluding the letter "e" (Gilbert Adair's 1994 English translation is called A Void, the e-rule disallowing The Disappearance)...
	www.todayinliterature.com /stories.asp?Event_Date=3/3/1982 (133 words)

	Amazon.com: A Void: Books: Georges Perec,Gilbert Adair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Perec's labyrinth in La Disparition was a lipogram omitting the letter "e." Lipograms are an old device, but what makes Perec's effort unique is the length and the fact that, despite its experimental nature, this works as a fun book, a sort of spoof on detective fiction.
		The late Georges Perec was connected to this sort of school, and at least one intelligent English critic has thought that Perec wrote some of the most boring novels of the twentieth century.
		George Perec(1936-1982), who wrote this book without the letter E in it, was a truly bizarre individual.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0002711192?v=glance (2553 words)

	Amazon.com: Georges Perec: A Life in Words : A Biography: Books: David Bellos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Perec, separated from his Jewish mother and father in the war (the older Perec died as a soldier), grew up in the France of Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, in an era that held Joyce and Nabokov to be its greatest literary gods.
		There is no doubt that Perec was a great original (he died, sadly, at the age of 46), and Bellos, his translator as well as his biographer, has written about as exhaustive a first biography as one is likely to meet.
		Perecs' books, peppered with clues, quizzes and games, are reinterpreted, giving the reader a new incentive to go back to the texts to more fully understand the author, as essentially a "normal" man.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879239808?v=glance (632 words)

	David Bellos: Nabokovian models and materials in the writing of Georges Perec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Perec's reading and appropriation of VN was highly selective, and the contours of what he understood by "Nabokov" must first be established.
		It will argue nonetheless that Perec's principal debt to Nabokov lies not in the material borrowed and re-inscribed, but in the model of the writer as puzzle-setter, and in the idea of writing as a textual operation.
		Perec's use of a particular subset of Nabokovian texts and positions in works that are now very widely read and admired cannot fail to have an influence on Nabokov's "image" in France, just as VN's own selective appropriations of European literature have altered the ways in which we read many texts of the past.
	www.ssees.ac.uk /bellos.htm (305 words)

	Three (Georges Perec) - book review
		In 1969 Perec published La Disparition (translated as A Void), a lipogrammatic novel in which the letter e does not appear.
		This is the raunchiest of Perec's works, though the orthographic constraint gives it the feel of a tongue-twister rather than a piece of erotica.
		The result is certainly contrived — the basic constraint in English reduces one to around 5% of a 50,000 word dictionary, though The Exeter Text is not strict in its spelling — but it has a certain fascination to it.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Three_Perec.html (684 words)

	A Void (Georges Perec) - book review
		It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff...", but Bellos' biography of Perec makes it clear that A Void was the result of a long-standing fascination both with the use of such constraints in literature and with that constraint in particular.
		It does have some similarities with Perec's later classic Life A User's Manual, but it will never be as popular.
		Adair deserves special praise for translating a work which poses such unusual difficulties; one almost feels he should have been credited as a co-author.
	dannyreviews.com /h/A_Void.html (362 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This selection of non-fictional work from the author of "Life, a User's Manual", demonstrates Georges Perec's characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.
		I'm a big fan of Mr Perec and other Oulipo writers, and I reckon this is a fine introduction to his range and vitality as a writer.
		For such a technical master, Perec also manages to move on an emotive level - Rue Vilin is a piece about periodic returns to the street where his ma lived before she was taken by the Nazis.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140189866 (782 words)

	FindArticles in Review of Contemporary Fiction, The: March 1993
		Phago-citations: Barthes, Perec, and the transformation of literature.
		Literature is corny: the cursi and Felipe Alfau's 'Chromos.' (Georges Perec/Felipe Alfau)
		The old and the new: an introduction to Georges Perec.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_hb3544/is_199303 (287 words)

	Georges Perec Discussion
		Georges Perec: A Life in Words : A Biography
		Recently, I read some of Motte's book on Perec on line....just curious about how much detail he supplies re: the constraints that Perec set up.
		In response to Alberto's message (above) the Bellos biography of Perec has some great tips on the various "constraints" and I believe their is an issue devoted to the whole matter of "Contemporary Fiction Review" published by Dalkey Archive.
	www.gnooks.com /discussion/georges+perec.html (396 words)

	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Perec's Jewishness. (Georges Perec/Felipe Alfau)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Georges Perec had Polish-Jewish parents but was separated from them during World War II and his youthful response to Judaism was very negative.
		There are very few overt mentions of Judaism in his works and those are often fraught with factual errors, indicating that Perec had lost his connections with his Jewish heritage entirely.
		However, Perec's works contain traditional Jewish themes and attitudes, reflecting a strong understanding of Jewish culture.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:13663037&refid=holomed_1 (202 words)

	Georges Perec - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They lived in Tunis for a few years, where Paulette worked as a teacher.
		In 1962, Perec began working as as an archivist at the Neurophysiological Research Laboratory attached to the Hôpital Saint-Antoine, a low paid position he kept until 1979.
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	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Georges_Perec (1129 words)

	Scriptorium - George Perec Bookstore
		Georges Perec : A Life in Words : A Biography
		Georges Perec : Ecrire Pour Ne Pas Dire (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Vol 28)
		The Orchard : A Remembrance of Georges Perec
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/perec_bookstore.html (275 words)

	Vademe.cum - Mail Books
		When Perec penned the e-less Enlèvement, the Exeter Text (even the He-Men Legend we've seen here) he set free the letters' secret essences.
		The excerpted 'e' represents Perec's begetters (the French 'e' = 'them') (See 'W', where he remembers 'them').
		When the 'e' re-emerges (see the Exeter Text), Perec revenges 'them': Clément fells Behrens, the SS feldwebel.
	www.partal.com /vademecum/eng/llibres/1.html (3967 words)

	Georges Perec - books at Amazon.com: Georges Perec
		- W or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec et al.
		The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex - Georges Perec et al.
		- Georges Perec: A Life in Words : A Biography - David Bellos
	danny.oz.au /books/amazon/k/Georges+Perec.html (167 words)

	Georges Perec - books at Amazon UK: Georges Perec
		- A Void - Georges Perec et al.
		or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec et al.
		"Georges Perec" books at Amazon UK Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
	danny.oz.au /books/amazon/uk/Georges+Perec.html (89 words)

	Perec, Georges 1936-1982 books, find the lowest prices
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		Georges Perec : Ecrire Pour Ne Pas Dire
		Georges Perec : A Life in Words A Biography
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	Dalkey Archive Press: RCF Vol. XIII, no. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		David Bellos, "The Old and the New: An Introduction to Georges Perec"
		Georges Perec and Kaye Mortley, "The Doing of Fiction"
		Andrew Leak, "Phago-citations: Barthes, Perec, and the Transformation of Literature"
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/93_1.html (142 words)

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