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Perec, Georges, 1936-1982

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 19360307 - 19820303

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Puzzle pour un portrait de Georges Perec / Perec, Georges ; Arnaud N ; Metail M., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-43590-45668
Scope and Contents

The jigsaw puzzle in the box is a portrait of Perec that is also depicted on the cover of the box. The elements were assembled from 99 books, photos or documents related to Perec and are listed on one of the unbound pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Ulcerations, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-58912-51124
Scope and Contents This book consists of 26 pages of colors and various formats over a large fold-out green plate under cover grey. The word Ulceration is a heterogramme composed of the eleven most frequent letters of the French language: E, S, A, R, T, I, N, U, L, O, C. Ulceration is a poem of an anagram of the word Ulcerations.: letters are being replaced by symbols (square, circle and triangle) of different colours (blue, red and black). The five final cut rules pages are blank for the reader to write the solution to the puzzle. According to Libririe Jean-Etienne Huret in Paris, ulcerations is an indoor game on a text by Georges Perec, typographic design of Alain Roger. Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille, the catcher-Science, 1986, in-4, rel. spiral, 1 f. and 6 ff. close on grey paper, a large plate folded and 5 ff. close on green paper, 1 f. grey. (M.28*) "More that of a true reissue, it's a playful adaptation. Indeed, for the first 200 series, the text is given, but in the printing code, the letters are...
Dates: 1986