Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec (Penguin Great Ideas)

Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec (Penguin Great Ideas)'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language, he discusses different ways of reading, a list of the things he really must do before he dies and the power of

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they decide to leave together

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