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Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Orthofer reviews "The Machine," a radio play written by Geroges Perec and published for the first time in English in the recent all-Perec issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. I've read this piece in my copy of the RCF, and it's great. Here are some of Michael's thoughts: Perec takes the poem and subjects it to a number of operations -- protocols that are,...
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Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
The new Review of Contemporary Fiction just landed on my doorstep. It's an entire issue devoted to Georges Perec, and if that doesn't get you up to read it then there's probably little else I can do to convince you. For me, this is a doubly exciting issue since my review of The Easy Chain by Evan Dara appears therein (also see our review in the QC). This is one of thse books that got...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
I got a copy of the Spring 2009 issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction today, devoted to Georges Perec . None of the contents are available online, but you can see what the contents are: a mighty fine collection indeed. Longtime RCF (and Perec) fans and readers will, of course recall (and have) the Spring 1993 Georges Perec/Felipe Alfau issue, and quite a few...
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Russell Davies (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
George Perec, quoted in Queuing for Beginners
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | yesterday
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Georges Perec's The Machine , finally available in English translation. Currently it's only available in the most recent issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction ; I hope they eventually print it in its own little booklet too. It's brilliant stuff.
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
... syllabus included books that are impossible to read, like "A Void," the 300-page thriller that Georges Perec wrote without using the letter "e." Or "Time's Arrow," the novel narrated backward in time.I loved this book.CLOSE CALLS WITH NONSENSE: Reading New Poetry, by Stephen Burt. Graywolf Press, 374 pp., $19 paper.Unlike Sutherland's book, which is more or less a road map to nonsense,...
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
... syllabus included books that are impossible to read, like "A Void," the 300-page thriller that Georges Perec wrote without using the letter "e." Or "Time's Arrow," the novel narrated backward in time.I loved this book.CLOSE CALLS WITH NONSENSE: Reading New Poetry, by Stephen Burt. Graywolf Press, 374 pp., $19 paper.Unlike Sutherland's book, which is more or less a road map to nonsense,...
