Georges Perec

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

• 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)

• 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)

• "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. [2] (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. [3] (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. [4] (French)
  • An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, trans. & afterw. Marc Lowenthal, Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2010, 72 pp, PDF. [5]. Review: Hill. (English)

• 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. [6] (French)

• Le Condottière, Paris: Seuil, 2012. (French)
  • Portrait of a Man, trans. & intro. David Bellos, London: MacLehose Press, 2014. (English)

Literature

• Yale French Studies 105: "Pereckonings: Reading Georges Perec", 2004, pp 1-183. [7]

• Review of Contemporary Fiction 26(1): "Georges Perec", 2009. [8]
  • David Bellos, "The old and the new: an introduction to Georges Perec".

Links

• http://aaaaarg.fail/maker/53106fe6334fe07269202bf1
• http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=georges+perec
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Perec