Name: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Georges Perec
ISBN: 9780141442242

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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Georges Perec

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0141442247

ISBN13

9780141442242

Edition No.

Synopsis "Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin Classics) "

“One of the most significant literary personalities in the world.”—Italo Calvino Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User’s Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec’s non-fictional work, the first to appear in English, demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humor, and accessibility. As he contemplates the many ways in which we occupy the space around us, as he depicts the commonplace items with which we are familiar in a startling, engrossing way, as he recounts his psychoanalysis while remaining reticent about his feelings or depicts the Paris of his childhood without a trace of sentimentality, we become aware that we are in the presence of a remarkable, virtuoso writer.

Georges Perec

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Georges Perec nació en París en 1936 y falleció en Ivry-sur-Seine en 1982. Sociólogo de formación, colaborador de numerosas revistas literarias, obtuvo el premio Renaudot con su primera novela, Las cosas. Personalidad ecléctica, fue ensayista, documentalista en neurofisiología, dramaturgo, guionista de cine, poeta, experto en acrósticos, crucigramas, lipogramas y anagramas, traductor y, last but not least, miembro fundamental del OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), fundado por Raymond Queneau y el matemático François Le Lionnais. Su obra monumental La vida instrucciones de uso ganó el premio Médicis en 1978. En Anagrama se han publicado Las cosas, El secuestro, La vida instrucciones de uso, El gabinete de un aficionado, Nací, El Condotiero y Lugares.

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