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Life: A User's Manual (original title La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by David Bellos in 1987. Its title page describes it as "novels", in the plural, the reasons for which become apparent on reading.
- Georges Pérec
- 1978
May 15, 1978 · Life: A User's Manual is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses.
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May 19, 2022 · English. 581 pages ; 25 cm. Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block. Includes index.
Feb 21, 2014 · Life, a user's manual. by. Perec, Georges, 1936-1982. Publication date. 1987. Topics. City and town life, Apartment houses. Publisher. Boston : D.R. Godine.
David R. Godine Publisher, 2009 - Fiction - 661 pages. Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the...
Books. Life: A User's Manual. Georges Perec. Random House, Apr 24, 2012 - Fiction - 608 pages. In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene...
Jan 1, 2009 · Life: A User’s Manual, a novel by Georges Perec, was originally published in 1978 under the French title of La Vie mode d’emploi. This remarkable book presents a minutely detailed portrait of a fictional ten-story apartment building in Paris and its scores of inhabitants.
