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life - a user's manual by georges perec £9.99 paperback | |
| SUMMARY: "One of the most singular literary personalities in the world" Italo Calvino |
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This ambitious, sprawling masterpiece covers a single day in the “life” of a Paris apartment block. It’s inhabitants include Bartlebooth, a man consumed by a purposeless ritual involving jigsaws, a group of ascetic cult members condemned to perform impossible physical tasks, a popular songwriter, a television producer and a doctor, to name but a few. Perec’s eye is honed on the small, seemingly insignificant details of these people’s lives, their histories, possessions and accumulated detritus. The novel is filled with puns, acronymic puzzles, literary “borrowings” and curiosities, wrapped in a chess-playing structure. Its exuberant wit, endless invention and an air of melancholy mark it as a truly great novel from a Gaelic genius
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| Published by Harvill ISBN 0002719991 Reviewed by Andy G, June 1999 | ||
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