Via wood s lot: Homage To Georges Perec: An Entertainment in Six Univocalisms (several unpublished oulipian texts by Perec's English translator Ian Monk). Worth noting, too, that the latest edition of The Review of Contemporary Fiction is dedicated to Georges Perec.

The new Review of Contemporary Fiction just landed on my doorstep. It's an entire issue devoted to Georges Perec, and if that doesn't get you up to read it then there's probably little else I can do to convince you. For me, this is a doubly exciting issue since my review of The Easy Chain by Evan Dara appears therein (also see our review in the QC). This is one of thse books that got virtually no ...

       I got a copy of the Spring 2009 issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction today, devoted to Georges Perec. None of the contents are available online, but you can see what the contents are: a mighty fine collection indeed.        Longtime RCF (and Perec) fans and readers will, of course recall (and have) the Spring 1993 ...

Michael Orthofer reviews "The Machine," a radio play written by Geroges Perec and published for the first time in English in the recent all-Perec issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. I've read this piece in my copy of the RCF, and it's great. Here are some of Michael's thoughts: Perec takes the poem and subjects it to a number of operations -- protocols that are, essentially, Oulipian cons...

Perec’s Unfinished BooksEven wonder what Georges Perec would have written if he hadn’t died of cancer at 45? At Words Without Borders Laird Hunt gives some idea of literature’s loss: In December 1976 Georges Perec, who wrote, both copiously and brilliantly as it occurred, put a remarkable document into the hands of Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens, founder of . . . continue reading Perec...

Via the Dalkey Archive's monthly newsletter. I'll be looking forward to this: Spring RCF... The Spring Review of Contemporary Fiction is a special issue on Georges Perec, updating our previous Perec issue, with an updated introduction by David Bellos and including a never-before-published Perec radio play.

Yesterday’s afternoon mail brought with it two Georges Perec books that Godine just brought out: a new edition of Life A User’s Manual and Thoughts of Sorts, a collection of essays published posthumously in France in 1985. And which, according to the jacket copy, “completes the Godine list of Perec’s great works translated into English.” The other Perec books availabl...

At We Be Sushi in the Mission District, one of his favorite lunch spots Reading Les Choses, by Georges Perec. He enjoys French literature. Next up -- something by Simone de Beauvoir.

       At his Conversational Reading Scott Esposito talks to Susan Barba of Godine about Georges Perec, as Godine has just brought out a new, corrected edition of Perec's classic, Life A User's Manual, and the first-ever complete English translation of Thoughts of Sorts.

Georges Perec, a successful member of the Oulipo, penned several groundbreaking works including Life: A User's Manual and A Void. A Void is impressive simply for the fact that Perec didn't use the letter 'e', the most commonly used vowel in the French language. In honor of his efforts, the transaltors did the same - the English version contains no 'e's - which makes simple sentences increasingly