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A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go by Jacques Roubaud; Georges Perec; Pierre Lusson
$32.50 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Written by a mathematician, a poet and a mathematician-poet, this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France (and thereby introduced the centuries-old game of strategy into that country) but something of a subtle Oulipian guidebook to writin ...Show more
A Void by Georges Perec (tr from French Gilbert Adair)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow. This virtuoso story, chock-full of plots and subplots, shows the skill of both aut ...Show more
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec (trans. Marc Lowenthal)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one caf window, then another, he spent ...Show more
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Georges Perec
$9.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these vi ...Show more
Ellis Island by Georges Perec; Harry Mathews (Translator); Monica de la Torre (Afterword by)
$27.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Georges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother per ...Show more
Life - A User's Manual by Georges Perec
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This marvellous book is one of the most ingenious works of modern fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives ...Show more
Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic ...Show more
Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec
$20.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic ...Show more
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This generous selection of Georges Perec's non-fiction, the first to appear in English, features ingenious contemplations on the ways in which we occupy urban and domestic space, engrossing accounts of his experiences with psychoanalysis, depictions of the Paris of his childhood, thought-provoking exami ...Show more
Things Story of the Sixties with a Man Asleep by Georges Perec; David Bellos (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Things- A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation. In A Man Asleep, a young student embarks upon a disturbing ...Show more
W or The Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler- one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to ...Show more