Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
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Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
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Author : Georges Perec
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-03-20
Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces written by Georges Perec and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-20 with Literary Collections categories.
“One of the most significant literary personalities in the world.”—Italo Calvino Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User’s Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec’s non-fictional work, the first to appear in English, demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humor, and accessibility. As he contemplates the many ways in which we occupy the space around us, as he depicts the commonplace items with which we are familiar in a startling, engrossing way, as he recounts his psychoanalysis while remaining reticent about his feelings or depicts the Paris of his childhood without a trace of sentimentality, we become aware that we are in the presence of a remarkable, virtuoso writer.
Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
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Author : Georges Perec
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2008-03-20
Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces written by Georges Perec and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-20 with Literary Collections categories.
“One of the most significant literary personalities in the world.”—Italo Calvino Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User’s Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec’s non-fictional work, the first to appear in English, demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humor, and accessibility. As he contemplates the many ways in which we occupy the space around us, as he depicts the commonplace items with which we are familiar in a startling, engrossing way, as he recounts his psychoanalysis while remaining reticent about his feelings or depicts the Paris of his childhood without a trace of sentimentality, we become aware that we are in the presence of a remarkable, virtuoso writer.
Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
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Author : Georges Perec
language : en
Publisher: Information as Material
Release Date : 2012
Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces written by Georges Perec and has been published by Information as Material this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Pigeon Reader is inspired by Georges Perec's thoughts on reading, which he likened to 'a pigeon pecking at the ground in search of breadcrumbs'.Morris' intervention oscillates between the obvious and the indecipherable, the trivial or the commonplace and the strange and the unexpected; between sense and non-sense, logic and absurdity, simplicity and abstruseness; between what the artwork shows and what it says. Pigeon Reader is an intervention in a precise facsimile edition of Perec's book, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (trans. John Sturrock, London: Penguin books, 1997).In remaking the full book, Morris' conviction has gone beyond the recent tradition of the artists' insert. Within the paratext he has corrupted the corporate branding, with penguins morphing into pigeons and advertisements re-imagined.One could be forgiven for asking why someone would remake an entire book just to make a conceptual play in a single chapter. Morris would likely respond with Perec's closing words from the very chapter re-played: 'These are questions that I ask, and I think there is some point in a writer asking them.'
53 Days
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Author : Georges Perec
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 2000
53 Days written by Georges Perec and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
The narrator of this posthumous novel investigates the disappearance of a famous French crime writer. The only clues he has are codes in a manuscript. A half-finished novel completed by its editors.
Life A User S Manual
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Author : Georges Perec
language : en
Publisher: Collins Harvill Press
Release Date : 1987
Life A User S Manual written by Georges Perec and has been published by Collins Harvill Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Apartment houses categories.
Set in a Paris apartment block, this novel describes in minute detail the lives of the inhabitants and the apartments they inhabit at a specific moment in time.
W Or The Memory Of Childhood
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Author : Georges Perec
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011
W Or The Memory Of Childhood written by Georges Perec and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Children categories.
Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity.
Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
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Author : Georges Perec
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-07
Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces written by Georges Perec and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07 with categories.
Georges Perec A Life In Words
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Author : David Bellos
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Georges Perec A Life In Words written by David Bellos and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994 George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation. David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which also provides the first full survey of Perec's irreverent, polymathic oeuvre - explores the life of an anguished, comical and endearingly modest man, who worked quietly as an archivist in a medical research library. The French son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he remained haunted all of his life by his father's death in the war, fighting to defend France, and his mother's in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His acclaimed novel A Void (1969) - written without using the letter "e" - has been seen as an attempt to escape from the words "père", "mere", and even "George Perec". His career made an auspicious start with Things: A Story of the Sixties (1965), which won the Prix Renaudot. He then pursued an idiosyncratic and ambitious literary itinerary through the intellectual ferment of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s.He belonged to the Ouvrior de Littérature Potentielle (OuLiPo), a radically inventive group of writers whose members included Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino. Perec achieved international celebrity with Life A User's Manual (1978), which won the Prix Medicis and was voted Novel of the Decade by the Salon du Livre. He died in his mid-forties after a short illness, leaving a truly puzzling detective novel, 53 Days, incomplete. "Professor Bellos's book enables us at once to relish the most wilfully bizarre aspects of Perec's oeuvre and to understand the whys and wherefores of his protean nature" - Jonathan Romney, Literary Review
Architecture Depends
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Author : Jeremy Till
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-02-08
Architecture Depends written by Jeremy Till and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-08 with Architecture categories.
Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.
Why We Build
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Author : Rowan Moore
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-08-30
Why We Build written by Rowan Moore and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-30 with Architecture categories.
Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it. Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.