Life: A User's Manual

Name: Life: A User's Manual
Author: Georges Perec

by Georges Perec

Encyclopedic novel mapping the lives and objects within a Paris apartment building

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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.

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