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

[Mark Kohut]

What? Lousy French translations of Pynchon? Or do they just not get it/him? 

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> On Jul 22, 2017, at 10:38 PM, Jan Devenish <jndvnsh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> George Perec also wrote a whole novel without using the letter E - incredible.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
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> 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.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century
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> Enjoy.
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> Jan
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>> 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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