Thoughts of Sorts: 19 (Verba Mundi (Paperback)) - Softcover

Perec, Georges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567923623 ISBN 13: 9781567923629

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2009

Synopsis

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 listmaking, orientating, classifying. This book employs all of the modes of questioning explored by his previous books, and at the same time breaks new ground of its own, ending with a question mark in typical/atypical Perec fashion.

About this title

Product Description:

Rare Book

About the Author:

Georges Perec, winner of the Prix Renaudot and Prix Medicis, was born in 1936. His books include Life A User's Manual hailed as "one of the great novels of the century" by among others the Times Literary Supplement and the Boston Globe. His other books include A Void (written without the letter 'e'). He died in 1982. Novelist, biographer and critic Margaret Drabble's latest book is a memoir, The Pattern in the Carpet (2009), in which she looks at her own life, the history of the games and the delights of puzzling. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London and Somerset. In 2008 she was made a DBE.

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1567923623
• ISBN 13: 9781567923629
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148