NP: Perec//Life: A User's Manual

[Jan Devenish]

YES! I loved it and would recommend it highly.
It's a joy to read.
There are lots of clever Oulipolian techniques that I was largely unaware
of upon reading it, but came to appreciate later.

George Perec also wrote a whole novel without using the letter E -
incredible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void

I've been steadily reading my way through Le Monde's 100 greatest books and
there are some absolute gems that I would have otherwise overlooked, coming
from an anglophone background, and it's been great to see which titles are
held in high regard by French readers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century

Enjoy.

Jan





On 22 July 2017 at 20:51, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone here read this? A friend recently wanted to recommend it
> strongly and personally enough that he bought me a copy. Seems like the
> sort of book someone here might have some kind of feelings about. Back
> cover makes me think of some of Kohut's recent Cortazar correspondence.
>
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