Tag Archives: georges perec

I’m looking for an X but I have a W. Hubris begets hubris and I have a puzzle that I will never finish—[life a user’s manual by georges perec] Je cherche en même temps l’éternel et l’éphémère. And so; the puzzle is never finished. good God… I almost want to leave it at that. There […] Continue reading →

killing words and having heart; something about obscurity and (tragi)comedy. —[life a user’s manual by georges perec] I sometimes think about how this book would look, on-screen perhaps. The only real answer that comes up for me is Wes Anderson. Something about how Perec can give you a thousand and one innumerably and seemingly worthless details, […] Continue reading →

Perec is schooling me. Gestalt is my friend but I don’t quite know her. —[life a user’s manual by georges perec] If you were to ask me to recount the events of this book thus far… I would be put into a haze. Some kind of Parisian, puzzling, eccentrically-complex, foggy haze. It would be as if […] Continue reading →

(digressions:) the pith & puzzles — [life a user’s manual by georges perec] The pith of the story happens “On the Stairs”… the pith is the real heart, I think. I say ‘pith’ to mean the kind of scrap on an orange, lemon, or the many other various and related citrus fruits. The white, damp, styrofoam-y, […] Continue reading →

Jasmine (Living Room, 1)—[life a user’s manual by georges perec] I think that I am reading a puzzle. Georges Perec’s book Life a User’s Manual is about a Paris apartment building and the people who live or have lived in its flats. Supposedly it is set against one exact moment in time — 8:00pm on June […] Continue reading →