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The short poems by Perec were done in 1976-1977 and are presented in their original format and in addition, in a form compacting the poems without spaces between the words creating a grid of 14 x 14 letters. A letter picture, consisting of one large capital letter and clusters of smaller letters, is printed on a page facing the intaglio colored prints by Boni. The letters are taken from the words in the first line of Perec's poem. The prints incorporate abstract components, letters, and fragments of words and numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book, edited by Bernard Magne, contains crossword puzzles and other puzzles about Paris, arranged by arrondisements, that were composed by Perec. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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This is a review of "A Void" by George Perec, translated from the French by Gilbert Adair. Perec has witten the novel as a lipogram without using the letter E throughout the work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was carried out as a homage to Georges Perec. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text consists of brief fictions and poems dealing with crime mysteries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is edited with an introduction and translated by John Sturrock. The initial story is about "domestic and urban space and how, these days, we are made to occupy it. This is pure topography: plain to the point of obviousness at times, yet forever veering off into jolly idiosyncrasies of the kind that make Perec so entertainig to read." For example in "Species of Spaces," Perec describes the page, the bed, the bedroom, the apartment, the apartment buildlng, the street, the neighborhood, the town, the countryside, Europe, the world and space.Alessandro M Angelini (New York, NY) - Reviewing this book for Amazon.com writes "As the author of the world's longest palindrome and other literary feats, Perec's phenomenal linguistic skills and imagination remain incomparable. His works, however, on not merely experiments within the constraints of language; I am not as impressed with his ability to write a 300-page novel without a single letter "e" as much as his endearing sense of...

Scope and Contents Internet Peter Baker's translation of introduction: During the last week of August 1939, while rumors of war invaded Paris, a young literature professor, Vincent Degrael, was invited to spend several days at a property in the neighborhood of le Havre that belonged to the parents of one of his colleagues, Denis Borrade. The eve of his departure, while he was exploring the library of his hosts searching for one of the books that one has always promised oneself to read, but which one generally only has time to flip through the pages negligently next to the fire before going to make up the fourth at bridge, Degrael fell upon a slim volume entitled The Winter Voyage, whose author, Hugo Vernier, was absolutely unknown to him, but the first pages of which made such a strong impression on him that he barely took the time to excuse himself from his friend and his hosts before going to read it in his room. The Winter Voyage was a sort of first-person narrative, situated in a...

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The book consists of two novels. Things deals with a young French lower middle class couple in the post-WWII era who are marketing researchers. They want to be acquire possessions but do not have the necessary job skills or work ethnic to become wealthy. A Man Asleep is an existensionlist story about a nameless person that is written entirely in the second voice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: Thoughts of Sorts, one of Georges Perec's final works, was published posthumously in France in 1985. With this translation, David Bellos, Perec's preeminent translator, has completed the Godine list of Perec's great works translated into English and has provided an introduction to this master of systematic versatility. Thoughts of Sorts; is a compilation of musings and essays attempting to circumscribe, in Perec's words, my experience of the world not in terms of the reflections it casts in distant places, but at its actual point of breaking surface. Perec investigates the ways by which we define our place in the world, reveling in list-making, orientating, classifying. This book employs all of the modes of questioning explored by his previous books, and, as the same time breaks new ground of its own, ending with a question mark in typical/atypical Perec fashion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Three short stories were published in one volume as suggested by Georg Perec to his publisher shortly before his death in in 1982 at the age of 46. The stories are titled, "The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex," "Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard ?" and "A Gallery Portrait." The Exeter Text is the opposite of the lipogram, "A Void" in that it is written using only the vowel 'e.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Three short stories were published in one volume as suggested by Georg Perec to his publisher shortly before his death in in 1982 at the age of 46. The stories are titled, "The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex," "Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard ?" and "A Gallery Portrait." The Exeter Text is the opposite of the lipogram, "A Void" in that it is written using only the vowel 'e.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The verso of Robert Coover's 15 playing cards (14 Hearts and aa Joker) entitled "Heart Suit"can be read as story in any sequence. Other authors who have written in this style include B.S. Johnson (Travelling People) and Marc Saporta (Composition No.1). Both of these works are held by the Sackner Archive. The man's comb in this collection is engraved "Timothy." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This essay focuses on the material and visual traces of everyday life, in particular his engagement with photgraphs and postcards as objects of art. Joe Moran, the author, describes Phillips project "20 Sites n Years." He also points out the similarity in the compulsive interest between Phillips and George Perec. Phillips use of postcards as in "The Postcard Century" and in his semial painting "Benches" is noted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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...

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This book was originally published in 1976 in an edition of 100 copies. Perec presented this book that consisted of word play writings to his friends as a New Year's gift. A facsimile signature and inscription is printed on back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This novel contains two distinct alternating biographies: the first is an allegorical story of W, a bizarre, mythical island civilization, symbolizing the Holocaust. It is printed in italics. The second text is Perec's memories of his childhood in Paris. Perec writes in his introduction that the two stories "are in fact inextricably bound up with each other, as though neither could exist on its own, as though it was only their coming together, the distant light they cast on each other, that could make apparent what is never quite said in one,never quite said in the other, but said only in their fragile overlapping." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.