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
- 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)
- "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. (English)
- 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. (English)
- "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.
- 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. [1] (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. [2] (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)
- 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)
- Ellis Island, Paris: P.O.L, 1995. [3] (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. [4]
- Review of Contemporary Fiction 26(1): "Georges Perec", 2009. [5]
- David Bellos, "The old and the new: an introduction to Georges Perec".
