Name: A Void
Price: 789.00 TWD
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Author: Georges Perec
ISBN: 9781567928228

Type

Physical Book

Author

Georges Perec

Publisher

David R. Godine Publisher

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781567928228

A Void

Georges Perec (Author) · David R. Godine Publisher · Paperback

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Synopsis "A Void"

Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation A mind-bending and mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User's Manual. A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all displaying Georges Perec's virtuosity as a verbal magician. It is also an outrageous verbal stunt: a 300-page novel that never once employs the letter E. The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric and insomniac Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best friends scour his diary for clues to his whereabouts. At first glance these pages reveal nothing but Vowl's penchant for word games, especially for "lipograms," compositions in which the use of a particular letter is suppressed. But as the friends work out Vowl's verbal puzzles, and as they investigate various leads discovered among the entries, they too disappear, one by one by one, and under the most mysterious circumstances . . . A book that only Georges Perec could have conceived, The New York Times called A Void, "a rollicking story, wildly amusing and easily accessible to all of us who don't mind slipping, sliding and being tripped."

Georges Perec

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Georges Perec nació en París en 1936 y falleció en Ivry-sur-Seine en 1982. Sociólogo de formación, colaborador de numerosas revistas literarias, obtuvo el premio Renaudot con su primera novela, Las cosas. Personalidad ecléctica, fue ensayista, documentalista en neurofisiología, dramaturgo, guionista de cine, poeta, experto en acrósticos, crucigramas, lipogramas y anagramas, traductor y, last but not least, miembro fundamental del OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), fundado por Raymond Queneau y el matemático François Le Lionnais. Su obra monumental La vida instrucciones de uso ganó el premio Médicis en 1978. En Anagrama se han publicado Las cosas, El secuestro, La vida instrucciones de uso, El gabinete de un aficionado, Nací, El Condotiero y Lugares.

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