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Article: Georges Perec: A Life in Words
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Katharine Washburn
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06-10-1994
Georges Perec: A Life in Words.
Georges Perec, best known in America for his 1978 novel "Life A Manuel" -- not only a vast literary jigsaw puzzle in its construction of an imaginary apartment building, but an inventory of its rooms, the objects therein and their trajectories through time -- left a list for his friends and literary heirs shortly before his death, in 1982, at 46. Among some of the longings itemized under "Some of the Things I Must Do Before I Die" -- the list was assembled for a radio program run by a founding member of the literary group Ou Li Po-Ouvoir de la Literature Potentielle (Workshop for Potential Literature) -- are goals that ...