La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams - Softcover

Georges Perec

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612191754 ISBN 13: 9781612191751

Publisher: Melville House Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Rare Book

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Review:

'We can read [the dreams] for their style, placing them at an important point in Perec's literary development...its rebuses are not there to be solved, and we can only guess what lies behind its wordplay.' --- Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

GEORGES PEREC (1936-1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentary maker and essayist. In death he remains a member of Oulipo, the workshop of potential literature. He is most famous for the novels Life: A User's Manual and A Void.

Translator DANIEL LEVIN BECKER (b. 1984) is the youngest member of Oulipo, and only the second American to ever be so honored. He is a writer, translator and music critic, and reviews editor of The Believer. He is the author Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature (Harvard 2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1612191754
• ISBN 13: 9781612191751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224