Perec's lost novel

[rich]

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/apr/08/georges-perec-lost-novel/

the story of a forger written in the 50s does bring to mind the plight of
Wyatt Gwyon in the Recognitions

Winckler’s dilemma is this. However perfect it is from a technical point of
view, a painting cannot be a forgery and an authentic work of art at the
same time. He sets out to achieve the impossible feat of creating a real
masterpiece that will be recognized (and therefore purchased) as a genuine
Antonello. But by the very fact of his success in “painting like
Antonello,” Winckler, like Antonello before him, produces an authentic
image of his own true self—an evasive, indeterminate fraud of no fixed
identity. The more “like” the process is, the less “like” the product can
be. He’s cooked. He’s done for. He’s finished. Perec doesn’t explain the
argument of his novel half so clearly because he wants to take his readers
through the process by which a false artist comes face-to-face with the
truth of art.

rich
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