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    Translated by David Bellos ...
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    The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

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  • Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere

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    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    The posthumously published first novel from the acclaimed French author of Life: A User's Manual offers "glimpses of Perec's future greatness" ( The New Yorker).Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction ... Read more

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  • The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    “One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.”—Italo Calvino“A satire for the author’s day and oh yes our own on the subtly crushing effects of corporate life … [a] delectable and philosophical office farce.”—Steven Poole, GuardianThe Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise—neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic, and never less ... Read more

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  • Ellis Island

    Translated by Harry Mathews ...
    A moving hybrid work about Ellis Island and immigration by the marvelous Georges PerecGeorges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother perished in ... Read more

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  • The General Line

    Georges Perec's Early Essays on Art and Politics

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by Rob Halpern ...
    Perec's poignant essays on European cultural production, translated in English for the first time.In these writings, Georges Perec constructs a bold new critical discourse—one that remains faithful to leftist imperatives such as history, class consciousness, and revolution—while maintaining his independence from the dominant voices of the Left, whose vision had long dominated the Left’s ... Read more

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    Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
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