Georges Perec: A Life in Words
A Life in Words
$42.75
- Paperback
832 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2010
Summary
“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 - ex…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846554209 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1846554209 |
| Author: | David Bellos |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 832 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2010 |
| Weight: | 742g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 147mm x 220mm |
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Critics Review
Immense, buoyant, utterly revealing… Has achieved an overwhelmingly human portrait, as vivid as it is complex, not only of Perec but of the mechanisms, intrigues, passions and comedies of Paris intellectual life in the sixties and seventies * Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times *
A vast and heartening biography that gives unfashionable weight to the subject’s playfulness as a writer, for all his deep difficulties as a man * Hugo Barnacle, Independent *
David Bellos
David Bellos is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University. He is well known for his many translations and for his biographies Georges Perec: A Life in Words and Jacques Tati. David Bellos was awarded the first Man Booker International Translator’s Prize in 2005 for his translations of Ismail Kadare’s novels.
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