Creator Bio
Georges Perec
1936–1982
Georges Perec was a French novelist, poet, dramatist, and essayist who pioneered the “new novel” movement in French literature and was a member of Oulipo, the Workshop of Potential Literature. A master of wordplay, Perec created experimental lipograms, including his novel La Disparition (1969), written without using the letter e. With filmmaker and novelist Robert Bober, Perec filmed Ellis Island Tales, about immigration to America. He received the Prix Theophraste Renaudot in 1965 and the Prix Médicis in 1978.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Things: A Story of the Sixties
For the first time they earned some money. They did not like their work; could they have liked it? But they did not dislike it a great deal either. They felt they were learning a lot from it. Year…
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W, or The Memory of Childhood
I was born on Saturday, 7 March 1936, towards nine in the evening, in a maternity clinic located at 19 Rue de l’Atlas, in the xixth arrondissement of Paris. My father, I believe, was the one who…