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Georges Perec

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Georges Perec (French: [peʁɛk, pɛʁɛk]; 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 murdered in the Holocaust, and many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play.

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The best books of all time by Georges Perec

  1. 454 . Life, a User's Manual by Georges Perec

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    Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Globe, and others as "one...

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  2. 1075 . W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec

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    W, or the Memory of Childhood (French: W ou le souvenir d'enfance), is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction by Georges Perec, published in 1975. Perec's novel consists of alternating chapters of...

  3. 1241 . A Void by Georges Perec

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    A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (literally, "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the l...

  4. 1438 . Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec

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    Things (French Les Choses) is a 1965 novel by Georges Perec, his first.The novel met with popular and critical success and won the Prix Renaudot in 1965.

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