Things: A Story of the Sixties

Georges Perec

1965

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 after year it changed them completely.

These were their great days of conquest. They had nothing; they were discovering the riches of the world.

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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.

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