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Georges Perec, born in Paris in 1936, was a pioneering French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. Orphaned from an early age, many of his works deal with absence, loss and identity, often through word play. He later became an eminent member of the experimental Oulipo group. He died in 1982.
'So full of interest and memory . . . I have enjoyed it so much' Dame Margaret Drabble 'The effect of cascading I remembers is unavoidably mesmerizing' Paris Review 'One of the oddest works of literature ever written' David Bellos, from the Introduction 'Je me souviens is only a small piece of Perec-autobiography, but it is an appealing one, suggestive and whimsical' Complete Review 'To read Georges Perec one must be ready to abandon oneself to a spirit of play. His books are studded with intellectual traps, allusions and secret systems, and ... they are prodigiously entertaining' Paul Auster 'One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else' Italo Calvino 'Perec is a great storyteller and a wry humorist' The Telegraph 'Perec's passion for classification, for enumeration, for lists, for patterns, for the thinginess of things, is strangely captivating and, despite an underlying melancholy, exhilarating' Margaret Drabble, New Statesman
