George Perec is the author of "Life A User's Manual". This aims to provide a comprehensive biography including a full survey of Perec's varied oeuvre, portraying an anguished, comical and ordinary man. The story begins in Eastern Europe before World War I and reaches its penultimate chapter in Australia, where Perec began drafting his last work, the thriller, "53 Days". The pearl trade, the occupation of France, the shoah, the rise and fall of the intellectual post-war France, art history, forgery, travels to Yugoslavia, Tunisia, Italy and Scotland, the Algerian War, neurophysiology, the book business and the radio, television and cinema industries provide the varied backdrops to a life rooted in historical change.

Georges Perec

David Bellos

Harvill

In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means

Literature & Fiction

Haruki, Murakami

Lawrence Venuti

Peter Cole

Clare Cavanagh

Richard Sieburth

Michael Emmerich

Ted Goossen

Jason Grunebaum

Alice Kaplan

Christi A. Merrill

Catherine Porter

Jos Manuel Prieto

Eliot Weinberger

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

Alexandre Montagu

W.W.Norton

Mountain Leopard Press

Biography of the maverick among France's 20th century writers.

The Harvill Press

Georges Perec Life in Words

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harvill Pr

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