Georges Perec
French author and Oulipo member whose formally inventive fiction is among the most extraordinary in 20th-century literature. Life: A User's Manual is his masterpiece, and A Void is a novel written without the letter e.
Works
- Life: A User's ManualEncyclopedic novel mapping the lives and objects within a Paris apartment building
- A VoidLipogrammatic novel written entirely without the letter E
- W or the Memory of ChildhoodAutobiographical exploration of childhood trauma, memory, and invented worlds
- ThingsNovel of intellectual pretension and desire among postwar Parisian bourgeoisie
- I RememberFragmented catalog of personal memories and cultural ephemera