W or the Memory of Childhood

Name: W or the Memory of Childhood
Author: Georges Perec

by Georges Perec

Autobiographical exploration of childhood trauma, memory, and invented worlds

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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.

More by Georges Perec

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
ThingsNovel of intellectual pretension and desire among postwar Parisian bourgeoisie
I RememberFragmented catalog of personal memories and cultural ephemera