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1. Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard

   Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 04.11.2013 - 13:44

2. Olho por Olho

   Non linguistic concrete poem.

   Luciana Gattass - 15.05.2014 - 06:20

3. La Vie Mode d'emploi

   This is one of the great books of the twentieth century and is worth learning French for. It's a jigsaw puzzle and a massive painting. It's an Oulipean conundrum and a microcosm of the world. It's a clever game and a philosophical investigation. It's all the things that literature should be and, in particular, it shows that, in the end, life does not fit together in a nice, neat pattern.

   Perec himself said he saw a Paris block of flats with the front stripped off so that you could peer into all of the flats and watch the inhabitants go about their daily business. And, to a great extent, that is what this novel is about. He takes a (fictitious) block of flats at 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier and looks at each flat, in seemingly random order (though he uses, like Nabokov, the move of a knight in chess to move through the flats), and their inhabitants, 179 in all. The story is told by Serge Valène, who has lived in the building for fifty-five years and who is a painter who, towards the end of his life, plans on creating a painting summing up all of his life (which, of course, he does not complete).

   Daniele Giampà - 10.04.2015 - 14:39