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Georges Perec, W, and the Making of The Memory of Childhood
Ist Teil von
Raritan, 2020-09, Vol.40 (2), p.92-174
Ort / Verlag
New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION eBooks)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Perec is not exactly a household name outside France, and thus I begin with a few paragraphs describing something of his life and accomplishments. It is not quite right to say that Perec is not well-known outside France. In 1987, five years after his death, his last completed novel, Life: A Users Manual, was published in Britain and America to great acclaim. In the following ten years all of his completed, published novels and his final, uncompleted novel were published in English translation plus a collection of shorter, nonfiction works. And in 2014, his first, but unpublished, novel, Portrait of a Man, was also published. In addition, Perec was always somewhat elusive as a "personality." The writer John Stiirrock sums up the situation in this way: "Perec was a Parisian and an intellectual in many of his tastes, but too nervous and too sincerely democratic ever to have wanted to start pronouncing on this and that in the megaphone role of a Paris intellectual.