Things With A Man Asleep

GEORGES PEREC

The Harvill Press

As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, disappears. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location.

A void.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Harvill

This marvellous book is one of the most ingenious works of modern fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of ever more unlikely tales, which range from an avenging murderer to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime...

Life: A User's Manual

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage Books

Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow. This virtuoso story, chock-full of plots and subplots, shows the skill of both author and translator who impart all the action without a crucial grammatical prop: the letter 'e'.

Void

Genre Fiction

Vintage Books USA

A novel that dispenses with the normal rules for literary composition.

The Art and Method of Approaching Your Boss to Ask For a Raise (Vintage Classics)

Vintage Classics

Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere

University of Chicago Press

La Vie Mode d'Emploi (French Edition)

French & European Pubns

Les Choses (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

French & European Publications, Inc.

"One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov."―Boston Globe From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a Sumatran tribe to the death of a trapeze artist, Life is stories connected by a single moment in time (8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975) in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris. Chapter by chapter, room by room, an extraordinary rich cast of characters is revealed in a series of tales that are bizarre, unlikely, moving, funny, or (sometimes) quite ordinary. The apartment block’s one hundred rooms are arranged in a magic square, and the book, too, contains a staggering range of literary puzzles and allusions, acrostics, problems of chess and logic, crosswords, and mathematical formula. All for the reader to solve.

Life A User's Manual

Verba Mundi

”One of the most singular literary personalities in the world.”―Italo Calvino
 Three works of short fiction by Georges Perec. The novella The Exeter Text contains all those e‘s that were omitted from A Void (Perec hated waste) and no other vowel. In Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard? we meet Sergeant Henri Pollak and his vehicle that carries him between Vincennes and Montparnasse and A Gallery Portrait about a painting within a painting that became the sensation of the 1913 exhibition in Pittsburgh.

Three by Perec (Verba Mundi (Paperback))

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