Georges Perec

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Georges Perec (7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group.

Works[edit]

  • Quel petit vélo à guidon chromé au fond de la cour?, Paris: Les Lettres Nouvelles, 1966. Comic novella. (French)
    • Which Moped with Chrome-plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard?, trans. Ian Monk, Godine, 2004. (English)
    • Co je to tam vzadu na dvoře za kolo s chromovanými řídítky?, trans. Alena Novotná, Rubato, 2016, 88 pp. [3] (Czech)
  • Le disparition, Paris: Gallimard, 1969.
    • O sumiço, trans. Zéfere, Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2015, 252 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Die Maschine, Stuttgart: Reclam, 1972. (German)
    • "The Machine", trans. Ulrich Schönherr, Review of Contemporary Fiction 26:1, Special Issue on Georges Perec, 2009, pp 33-93. Radio play.
  • "Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien", Cause commune 1, 1975, pp 59-108; repr. as Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien, Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1982, 59 pp; repr., Paris: Christian Bourgois, 2008, 49 pp. [7] (French)
  • W ou le souvenir d'enfance, 1975. (French)
    • W aneb Vzpomínka z dětství, trans. Václav Jamek, Rubato, 2016, 216 pp. [9] (Czech)
  • Penser / Classer, Paris: Hachette, 1985. (French)
  • Ellis Island, Paris: P.O.L, 1995. [11] (French)
  • Le Condottière, Paris: Seuil, 2012. (French)
    • Portrait of a Man, trans. & intro. David Bellos, London: MacLehose Press, 2014. (English)

Literature[edit]

  • Yale French Studies 105: "Pereckonings: Reading Georges Perec", 2004, pp 1-183. [12]

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