Georges perec grew up with his uncle and aunt because his father and mother died during world war ii. Perecs starting point was how letters, words, and lines fill a blank sheet of paper, forming a kind. He was reared by an aunt and uncle and eventually attended the sorbonne for several years. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. Au fond, je me donne des regles pour etre totalement libre. Les revenentes translated by ian monk as the exeter text is a univocalism, a text which. Ap re sd ee t ulou incm arcel ben bou, v 1962 m a cnrs. His father died as a soldier early in the second world war and his mother was murdered in the holocaust, and many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play. A companion piece of sorts appeared in 1972 with the novella les revenentes the ghosts.
Nel 1976 pubblica, settimanalmente, sul giornale le point. Publication date 1969 topics pdf collection opensource language french. Both of georges perecs parents perished in world war ii, his father as a soldier and his mother in. Published in 1993, this was the first biography of perec in any language and its import can be seen its warm. Its the story of man named anton vowl who has disappeared, and of the search for vowl by his. Perecs system makes exhaustive use of numbers that are lipogrammatic in french but not in english where, as in other areas. Georges perec, born march 7, 1936, paris, francedied march 3, 1982, ivry, french writer, often called the greatest innovator of form of his generation perec was orphaned at an early age. Il lui a fallu plus dun tour dans son sac, a gp, pour finir son ahuri. Il y avait, pour finir, paraphant, trois traits horizontaux dont lun au moins paraissait plus court quun gribouillis confus barrait. Perec won the prix renaudot in 1965, the prix jean vigo in 1974, the prix medicis in 1978. His father died as a soldier early in the second world war and his mother was murdered in the holocaust, and many of his works deal with absence. A void was written entirely without using the letter e, as was its translation. Especes despaces 1974 examined spaces around and outside us, from ones bed to the universum.