Research Catalog

Title

Species of spaces and other pieces / Georges Perec ; edited and translated by John Sturrock.

Author

Perec, Georges, 1936-1982

Publication

London : Penguin Books ; New York : Penguin Books USA, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sturrock, John

Description

xv, 288 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User's Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work, the first to appear in English, demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility." "As he contemplates the many ways in which we occupy the space around us, as he depicts the commonplace items with which we are familiar in a startling, engrossing way, as he recounts his psychoanalysis while remaining reticent about his feelings or depicts the Paris of his childhood without a trace of sentimentality, we become aware that we are in the presence of a remarkable, virtuoso writer."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections. English. 1997
• Penguin twentieth-century classics

Alternative Title

Works. 1997

Subject

Perec, Georges, 1936-1982 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Species of spaces / Espèces d'espaces -- from Je suis né -- from Penser / Classer -- from L'infra-ordinaire -- from L. G. -- from Cantatrix Sopranica L. -- The winter journey/ Le voyage d'hiver -- from Voeux.

ISBN

0140189866

LCCN

^^^98165819^

OCLC

• 39188628
• SCSB-12624462

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library