Perec Images + Info

Sometimes it's nice to know a little about who you're reading, so I'll provide a few photos and a little bit of information about Georges Perec here. First, a link to Paul Auster's excellent review/introduction to Perec's life and work, published in the New York Times when the English translation of Life: A User's Manual was first published. I think Auster has it exactly right here: "Perec had an uncanny gift for articulating the nuances of the material world, and in his hands even a worm-eaten table can become an object of fascination." And here: "To read Georges Perec one must be ready to abandon oneself to a spirit of play."

And here are a few images...

Photo of Georges Perec with his cat:



French postage stamp, obviously based on an image from the same photo shoot:



The stamp may be counterfeit.