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Title: 53 Days by Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Jacques Roubaud, David Bellos ISBN: 1-56792-088-8 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A coda to a variegated career
Comment: Perec's literary output was as varied as anyone's, comprising everything from encyclopedic novels to comic couplets, but he was consistent in one way--the quality of his writing was always excellent. Each of his works revelled in the myriad delights of language, whatever its subject. In this novel, published posthumously in an unfinished form, he uses the generic elements of the mystery novel, confounding and fulfilling them at the same time. A writer disappears from a fictional French African colony, and an unwilling acquaintance is drafted to study the vanished man's final manuscript for clues. The usual dangerous woman makes an appearance, and there are plenty of veiled warnings that the search should be dropped, but at each turn the narrator, well-versed in fictive custom, recognizes the conventions and turns them on their heads. The chapters abound with references to other works, classics and potboilers alike, and the plot in fact begins to hinge on them. Perec scholars or fans will additionally note a host of allusions to his own oeuvre and coded biographical details. Mystery aficionados will be disappointed that "53 Days" was never completed, but its editors have included the outlines and notes that wrap the story up; anyone with an interest in the writing process should find that these appendices more than make up for what's missing.
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Title: Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, David Bellos ISBN: 0879237511 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: W or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec, David Bellos ISBN: 1567921582 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Twentieth Century Classics) by Georges Perec, John (Editor & Translator) Sturrock ISBN: 0140189866 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright ISBN: 0811207897 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1981 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Georges Perec: A Life in Words: A Biography by David Bellos ISBN: 0879239808 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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