Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140189865
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Species of Spaces and Other Pieces written by Georges Perec and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of non-fictional work from the author of Life, a User's Manual, demonstrates Georges Perec's characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921588
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W, Or, The Memory of Childhood written by Georges Perec and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity.

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567920888
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 53 Days written by Georges Perec and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator of this posthumous novel investigates the disappearance of a famous French crime writer. The only clues he has are codes in a manuscript. A half-finished novel completed by its editors.

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922967
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Void written by Georges Perec and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana of humor, pathos, and loss."--Time magazine A Void is a metaphysical whodunit, a story chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which afford Perec occasion to display his virtuosity as a verbal magician. It is also an outrageous verbal stunt: a 300-page novel that never once employs the letter E. The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric and insomniac Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best friends scour his diary for clues to his whereabouts. At first glance these pages reveal nothing but Vowl's penchant for word games, especially for "lipograms," compositions in which the use of a particular letter is suppressed. But as the friends work out Vowl's verbal puzzles, and as they investigate various leads discovered among the entries, they too disappear, one by one by one, and under the most mysterious circumstances . . .

Author : A.J. Mackinnon
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743822510
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow written by A.J. Mackinnon and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow. Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea – 4900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope – through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel.

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : Collins Harvill Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, a User's Manual written by Georges Perec and published by Collins Harvill Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a Paris apartment block, this novel describes in minute detail the lives of the inhabitants and the apartments they inhabit at a specific moment in time.

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984115525
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris written by Georges Perec and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Georges Perec.

Author : Jeremy Till
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262518783
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture Depends written by Jeremy Till and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.

Author : David Bellos
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409019268
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georges Perec: A Life in Words written by David Bellos and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994 George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation. David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which also provides the first full survey of Perec's irreverent, polymathic oeuvre - explores the life of an anguished, comical and endearingly modest man, who worked quietly as an archivist in a medical research library. The French son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he remained haunted all of his life by his father's death in the war, fighting to defend France, and his mother's in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His acclaimed novel A Void (1969) - written without using the letter "e" - has been seen as an attempt to escape from the words "père", "mere", and even "George Perec". His career made an auspicious start with Things: A Story of the Sixties (1965), which won the Prix Renaudot. He then pursued an idiosyncratic and ambitious literary itinerary through the intellectual ferment of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s.He belonged to the Ouvrior de Littérature Potentielle (OuLiPo), a radically inventive group of writers whose members included Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino. Perec achieved international celebrity with Life A User's Manual (1978), which won the Prix Medicis and was voted Novel of the Decade by the Salon du Livre. He died in his mid-forties after a short illness, leaving a truly puzzling detective novel, 53 Days, incomplete. "Professor Bellos's book enables us at once to relish the most wilfully bizarre aspects of Perec's oeuvre and to understand the whys and wherefores of his protean nature" - Jonathan Romney, Literary Review

Author : Jason Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992666903
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New English Landscape written by Jason Orton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: