Życie instrukcja obsługi – powieść Georges'a Pereca, opublikowana w 1978 roku. Utwór opowiada o mieszkańcach dziesięciopiętrowej kamienicy paryskiej. Został skonstruowany przy użyciu zasad kombinatoryki i reguł szachowych oraz nawiązuje do układania puzzli. Inspirację dla powieści stanowił rysunek Saula Steinberga pt. …
A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition, is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter e, following Oulipo constraints.
W, or the Memory of Childhood, is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction by Georges Perec, published in 1975. Perec's novel consists of alternating chapters of autobiography and of a fictional story, divided into two parts. The autobiographical thread is a collection of uncertain memories, as well as descriptions of …
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 …