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W, or the Memory of Childhood (French: W ou le souvenir d'enfance) is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction by Georges Perec, published in 1975. Perec's novel consists of alternating chapters of autobiography and of a fictional story, divided into two parts.
- Georges Pérec, David Bellos
- 1975
Jan 1, 2001 · W, or the Memory of Childhood is a duad of parallel narrations: the first is a true story of childhood, ruined by the war and fascism, and the second is a pure fiction of Olympian utopia… A triple theme runs through this memory: parachute, sling, truss: it suggests suspension, support, almost artificial limbs.
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Feb 6, 2012 · W, or, The memory of childhood. by. Perec, Georges, 1936-1982. Publication date. 1988. Topics. Children -- Europe -- Fiction, Autobiographical memory -- Fiction, Europe -- Social conditions -- Fiction. Publisher. Boston : D.R. Godine.
Within Georges Pérec's corpus, his book W, or the Memory of Childhood (1988; W, ou, le souvenir d'enfance, 1975) is both characteristic in its ingenious patterning of different narratives and unique in its gravity.
From the author of Life: A User's Manual (Godine, 1987) comes an equally astonishing novel: W or The Memory of Childhood, a narrative that reflects a great writer's effort to come to terms with his...
Jul 6, 2023 · Georges Perec’s 1975 W, or the Memory of Childhood alternates between two seemingly distinct narratives. The 19 odd-numbered chapters (1, 3, 5 … ) are about Perec’s own French Jewish childhood in the 1930s and 1940s.
Oct 26, 2021 · 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. This translation originally published: 1988.
