Georges Perec
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Georges Perec (7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group.
Works[edit]
- Les Choses: une histoire des années soixante, Paris: Julliard, 1965, 158 pp; Paris: Pocket, 1990. (French)
- Les choses: A Story of the Sixties, trans. Helen R. Lane, Grove Press, 1967, 157 pp. (English)
- Las cosas: una historia de los años 60, trans. Jesús López Pacheco, Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1967, PDF. (Spanish)
- "Things: A Story of the Sixties", trans. David Bellos, in Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties, with, A Man Asleep, London: Harvill, 1990; Boston: Godine, 1990, ARG. (English)
- As Coisas: uma história dos anos sessenta, trans. Rosa Freire d'Aguiar, Grupo Companhia das Letras, 2011, 120 pp. [1] (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Věci, trans. Alena Novotná, Rubato, 2017, 136 pp. [2] (Czech)
- Quel petit vélo à guidon chromé au fond de la cour?, Paris: Les Lettres Nouvelles, 1966. Comic novella. (French)
- Which Moped with Chrome-plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard?, trans. Ian Monk, Godine, 2004. (English)
- Co je to tam vzadu na dvoře za kolo s chromovanými řídítky?, trans. Alena Novotná, Rubato, 2016, 88 pp. [3] (Czech)
- Un homme qui dort, Paris: Denoël, 1967. (French)
- "A Man Asleep", trans. Andrew Leak, in Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties, with, A Man Asleep, London: Harvill, 1990; Boston: Godine, 1990, ARG. (English)
- Un uomo che dorme, Quodlibet, 2009, EPUB. (Italian)
- Muž, který spí, trans. Lukáš Prokop, Rubato, 2016, 116 pp. [4] (Czech)
- "L'Art et la manière d’aborder son chef de service pour lui demander une augmentation", Enseignement programmé 4, Hachette/Dunod, Dec 1968; repr. as book, Hachette Littératures, 2008. (French)
- The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise, trans. David Bellos, London: Vintage, 2011.
- Le disparition, Paris: Gallimard, 1969.
- O sumiço, trans. Zéfere, Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2015, 252 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Die Maschine, Stuttgart: Reclam, 1972. (German)
- "The Machine", trans. Ulrich Schönherr, Review of Contemporary Fiction 26:1, Special Issue on Georges Perec, 2009, pp 33-93. Radio play.
- La boutique obscure, Paris: Denoël, 1973. Dream diary from 1968-1972. [5] (French)
- La cámara oscura: 124 sueños, trans. Mercedes Cebrián, Madrid: Impedimenta, 2010. (Spanish)
- La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams, trans. Daniel Levin Becker, Melville House, 2013, 224 pp. [6] (English)
- Espèces d’espaces, Paris: Galilée, 1974; 1985. (French)
- Träume von Räumen, trans. Eugen Helmlé, 1994. (German)
- Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, trans. John Sturrock, Penguin, 1998. (English)
- Especies de espacios, trans. Jesús Camarero, 1999; 2001. (Spanish)
- Χορείες χώρων, trans. Αχιλλέας Κυριακίδης, 2000. (Greek)
- Vrste prostora, trans. Petra Matić, 2005. (Croatian)
- Prosto prostranstva: Dnevnik polzovatelya, trans. Valeriy Kislov, 2012. (Russian)
- "Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien", Cause commune 1, 1975, pp 59-108; repr. as Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien, Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1982, 59 pp; repr., Paris: Christian Bourgois, 2008, 49 pp. [7] (French)
- An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, trans. & afterw. Marc Lowenthal, Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2010, 72 pp, PDF. [8]. Review: Hill. (English)
- W ou le souvenir d'enfance, 1975. (French)
- W aneb Vzpomínka z dětství, trans. Václav Jamek, Rubato, 2016, 216 pp. [9] (Czech)
- La Vie mode d'emploi, 1978. Novel. (French)
- Life: A User's Manual, trans. David Bellos, 1987. (English)
- Das Leben. Gebrauchsanweisung. Roman, Frankfurt am Main: zweitausendeins, 2006. (German)
- Život návod k použití, trans. Kateřina Vinšová, Rubato, 2017, 732 pp. [10] (Czech)
- Penser / Classer, Paris: Hachette, 1985. (French)
- Pensar / Clasificar, trans. Carlos Gardini, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1986. (Spanish)
- L'Infra-ordinaire, Paris: Seuil, 1989. (French)
- Warum gibt es keine Zigaretten beim Gemüsehändler, trans. Eugen Helmlé, Manholt, 1991; repr., Zürich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2014. (German)
- L.G. Une aventure des années soixante, Paris: Seuil, 1992. (French)
- Ellis Island, Paris: P.O.L, 1995. [11] (French)
- Le Condottière, Paris: Seuil, 2012. (French)
- Portrait of a Man, trans. & intro. David Bellos, London: MacLehose Press, 2014. (English)
Literature[edit]
- Yale French Studies 105: "Pereckonings: Reading Georges Perec", 2004, pp 1-183. [12]
- Review of Contemporary Fiction 26(1): "Georges Perec", 2009. [13]
- David Bellos, "The old and the new: an introduction to Georges Perec".
