Georges Perec (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Bellos
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1936-1982
- Setting: France, Israel, Tunisia, the United States, and Australia
- Principal Characters: Georges Perec, David Bienenfeld, Paulette Petras, Catherine Binet, Raymond Queneau
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, Literature, World War II, Reading, Holocaust, Jewish, Judaism, Sociology, Realism
- Locales: France, United States, Israel, Australia, Tunisia
The publication in 1965 of Georges Perec’s novel Les Choses: Une Histoire des années soixante (Things: A History of the Sixties, 1967), which was eventually translated into twenty languages from Catalan to Estonian, marked the beginning of a prolific career that produced more than twenty works during a decade and a half of sustained effort. His first published work, in addition to being awarded the Prix Renaudot, enjoyed enormous commercial success and continues to sell, in the original French version, tens of thousands of copies annually. Despite the diversity and...
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