Lost your password?

Blogs about: Georges Perec

Featured Blog

Regrets, I've had a few......1 comment

toniwhitmont wrote 1 week ago: I have been fascinated the last several Sunday nights by Heston Blumenthal’s Feasts. Apart fro … more →

Tags: Book retailing trends, Fiction, writing style, best books 2009, Dianne Armstrong, hell island, life: a user's manual, Matthew Reilly, Nocturne

City walls are archives too1 comment

cityperson wrote 3 weeks ago: WALLS I hang a picture on the wall, then I forget that there is a wall, I don’t remember what … more →

Tags: graffiti, Street Art, Tel Aviv, walls

Eunoia

westrow wrote 1 month ago: By chance caught a wonderful programme on the radio today, on the way back from a seminar on LinkedI … more →

Tags: Books, language, Technical Writing, Simplified Technical English, eunoia, simplified English, LinkedIn, oulipo

Saturday Book Review Round-Up1 comment

Taylor Bright wrote 1 month ago: Peter AckroydMalcolm Gladwell keeps doing his thing, and critics keep doing theirs. Speaking of a fa … more →

Tags: Books, back matter, Knut Hamsun, Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Martin Amis, James Ellroy, Peter Ackroyd, David Vann

A Void: Now How About That?3 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 1 month ago: Looking for a book missing from an expensive bookstore’s shelves, I stumbled upon another title whic … more →

Tags: Books, a void, adair, Author, E, French Literature, Gilbert Adair, Jakobson, joke

Perec and Kabbalah

jewishbooks wrote 2 months ago: Posted by Naomi Firestone Joshua Cohen of TabletMag looks at the relationship between Georges Perec, … more →

Tags: Jewish books, Tablet, life: a user's manual, godine

A PUZZLING READ

The Central Scrutinizer wrote 5 months ago: GEORGES PEREC – “LIFE A USER”S MANUAL” Georges Perec was a French writer and … more →

Tags: Fuzzy Burbles, life: a user's manual, oulipo, constrained writing, JigSaw

Post For Georges Perec6 comments

Billy wrote 5 months ago: Outdoors, this community do a pow-wow: talking and shouting from high-up windows to consorts out at … more →

Tags: pretentious nonsense

Random Quotation1 comment

dkoupf wrote 5 months ago: “With this panic about losing track of myself there went a fury for preserving and for classif … more →

Tags: random quotation, Memory, Preserving, classifying

Random Quotation

dkoupf wrote 5 months ago: “To write:  to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a … more →

Tags: writing, random quotation, materiality, Material History

Random (Long) Quotation

dkoupf wrote 5 months ago: “There are few events which don’t leave a written trace at least. At one time or another … more →

Tags: writing, random quotation, materiality, Pages, Material History, writing process, The Everyday

céline's prose style explained, plus more from normance . . .

peter wrote 6 months ago: . . . Normance is a full-throttle grotesquery. The prose rears up at the reader like an exploding gr … more →

Tags: excerpts & quotations, the city, French Literature, book cover art, Emile Zola, Samuel Beckett, writing, Jean Paul Sartre, Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Saving quotes2 comments

memyselfandenglish wrote 6 months ago: Yesterday I threw an old diary from 2006 (the kind you use to note down appointments and to-do lists … more →

Tags: bukowski, Luis Durán, Personal, Quotes, Things I do....

- en remontant le puzzle du belleville disparu de georges perec

globeglauber wrote 6 months ago: la rue vilin (paris, belleville) via un bout de planche contact de pierre getzler en 1970 (en bas à … more →

Tags: Agenda, Documentaire, film, Cinema, cinéma documentaire, Paris, Histoire, Photographie, robert bober

Automatic Poetry

stantherobot wrote 8 months ago: Eventually, this blog will have more to it…thoughts on art and music, possibly politics, criti … more →

Tags: Mine, experimental poetry, the letter e

SPORTS MONDAY3 comments

butttub wrote 8 months ago: About half Georges Perec’s ‘W’ consists of a description of an island, the titular … more →

Tags: Sports, W, 1904, Summer Olympics

Georges Perec

rsharrock wrote 8 months ago: Introduction Georges Perec’s preferred representation of life was the elusive, artfully constructed … more →

Saturday VIII: 14 March 2009 (Birthday!)

dbrauer43 wrote 9 months ago: In effect, this sign is saying 'Happy Birthday!' To-day is my birthday!  Yay!   I turned 621 … more →

Tags: Saturday, german, Quiz Bowl, Birthday, quizbowl, state, Competition, Barbie, Nun

- maisons coupées / maison de poupées1 comment

globeglauber wrote 11 months ago: en petite silhouette rouge, en bas au centre de la photo du haut, jerry lewis sur le set de ‘t … more →

Tags: film, dessin(s) - illustration, Cinema, Jerry Lewis, Cinéma Américain, bernard queysanne, un homme qui dort, La Vie mode d'emploi, goûts cinématographiques


Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS