Thoughts of Sorts

Name: Thoughts of Sorts
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ISBN: 9781567923629

ISBN-10: 1567923623

ISBN-13: 9781567923629

Edition: 2009

Authors: Georges Perec, David Bellos, David Bellos

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Publication date: 1/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

George Perec was born in Paris on March 7, 1936 and was educated in Claude-Bernard and Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire. Perec was a parachutist in the French Military before he began publishing his writing in magazines like Partisans. Perec also wrote the book, Life: A Users Manual. Georges Perec died on March 3, 1982.