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- Herausgeber: BrightSummaries.com
- Kategorie: Bildung
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
What should we learn from Life as a User, this total sociological novel? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed analysis.
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- A summary of the collection and its main themes
- Some insights on the main characters such as Gaspard Winckler, Bartlebooth and Serge Valène
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: An oulipian book; Georges Perec, builder of novels; The concept of puzzle at the center of the work
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GEORGES PÉREC
FRENCH WRITER
•Born in 1936 in Paris
•Died in 1982 in Ivry-sur-Seine
•Some of his works:
°The Things (1965), novel
°The Disappearance (1969), novel
°W or the Memory of Childhood (1975), story
Born in 1936 to Polish Jewish parents, Georges Pérec was orphaned at the age of 7 (his father died in the war and his mother was deported).
After studying literature, he published his first novel Les Choses in 1965, which won the Prix Renaudot. Influenced by Raymond Queneau, he integrated the scientific constraints of OuLiPo, of which he became a member in 1967, into his subsequent writings (the lipogram in La Disparition or monovocalism in Les Revenentes).
In 1975, he returned to his childhood in W ou le Souvenir d'enfance, in which he alternated between autobiography and adventure novels. In 1978, he published La Vie mode d'emploi, a work that was ambitious on all levels and which would become his masterpiece.
Apart from his activities as a writer, Georges Pérec was also a talented cruciverbalist.
He died in 1982, leaving behind numerous texts that were published posthumously, thus enriching a body of work in which, through storytelling and the love of language, one can always read the anguish of disappearance.
LIFE AS A USER
TOTAL NOVEL
•Genre: novel
•Reference edition: La Vie mode d'emploi, Paris, Le Livre de poche, 1986, 706 p.
•1st edition: 1978
•Themes : art, OuLiPo, sociology, novels, inventory, death
A monster novel, La Vie mode d'emploi describes in 6 parts and 99 chapters (one per room) the life of the inhabitants of the building located at 11 rue Simon-Crubellier (an imaginary street in the 17th arrondissement of Paris), from 1875 to 1975.
Constructed in the manner of a puzzle, the writing of this book responds to 42 narrative constraints associated with a mathematical model, all set out in very precise specifications in the form of complex tables (constraints, chronology, stories…). For example, the author has created “pairs”, bringing together a table and a book, which are supposed to inspire the writing of 10 chapters each.
La Vie mode d'emploi, which took nine years to write, is Georges Pérec's masterpiece. Indeed, with this, or rather these novels, the author demonstrates his incredible mastery of formal constraints which nevertheless leave (and this is the proof of his genius) plenty of room for reading pleasure.
The book won the Prix Médicis in 1978, the year of its publication, and is constantly cited as a reference by a wide range of writers.
