These 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday.
• What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday ...life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies?
• What happens if we read Life: A User’s Manual as a toolbox of ideas for games studies?
• What light does the concept of the ‘infra-ordinary’ shed on social media?
• What insights does algorithmic writing generate for the digital humanities?
• What lessons can architects, artists, game-designers and writers draw from Perec's fascination with creative constraints?
Through an examination of such questions, this collection takes Perec scholarship beyond its existing limits to offer new ways of rethinking our present.
Georges Perec, novelist, filmmaker and essayist, was one of the
most inventive and original writers of the twentieth century. A
fascinating aspect of his work is its intrinsically geographical
...nature. With major projects on space and place, Perec's writing
speaks to a variety of geographical, urban and architectural
concerns, both in a substantive way, including a focus on cities,
streets, homes and apartments, and in a methodological way,
experimenting with methods of urban exploration and observation,
classification, enumeration and taxonomy.
Georges Perec's Geographies is the first book
to offer a rounded picture of Perec's geographical interests.
Divided into two parts, Part I, Perec's Geographies, explores the
geographies within Perec's work in film, literature and radio, from
descriptions of streets to the spaces of his texts, while Part II,
Perecquian Geographies, explores geographies in a range of material
and metaphorical forms, including photographic essays, soundscapes,
theatre, dance and writing, created by those directly inspired by
Perec.
Georges Perec's Geographies extends the body of Perec
criticism beyond Literary and French Studies to disciplines
including Geography, Urban Studies, Planning and Architecture to
offer a complete and systematic examination of Georges Perec's
geographies. The diversity of readings and approaches will be of
interest not only to Perec readers and fans but to students and
researchers across these subjects.
Kobus Moolman prefaces A Book of Rooms with a quote by Georges Perec. The quote details the irrevocability of the past through memory. However, both Perec and Moolman not only recover memory, but are ...able to do so in great detail, specifically through thorough catalogic descriptions of spaces and objects that surround them in the domestic realm. Analysis of these catalogic descriptions forms the key component of this article. The structure of Moolman's work, with diferent rooms used to demarcate diferent sections, and the significance of objects, further contribute towards his project of recovering the irrevocable. Comparison of Moolman's project with that of Perec, with reference to Bachelard's thoughts on the home, serves in the analysis of how the self is related to the concept of a house, with its many rooms in which are stored those things which contribute to an individual's sense of identity. The generation of narrative via description and cataloguing of these various domestic objects and events is considered, with specific focus given to the 'bed' as it plays a significant role in the formation of the self and the recollection of memories. Keywords: Bachelard, catalogic description, domestic sphere, Kobus Moolman, Georges Perec.
La disparition by Georges Perec, is a detective novel with plenty to be revealed--from the vanishing of the protagonist, Anton Voyl, to the disappearance of vowel E, not to be found in the book. Such ...violence against language is trickery against the algorithms of the system, duped within its own combinatory rules. Likewise, a vanished protagonist jeopardizes the narrative in the expression level, by creating an absence that paradoxically says something by not saying anything--a performative crime committed by literature. Voyl's disappearance is a black hole--or a white gap--which gulfs everything into the unknown, in a novel structured by the idea of absence. This suggests that any semiotic possibility, no matter how instable it is, lies in a gap, a silence, a difference in the so-called language continuum. Thus, we herein analyze how the semiotic notion of absence can empower reflection on the writing process as a crime in La disparition.
La disparition by Georges Perec, is a detective novel with plenty to be revealed--from the vanishing of the protagonist, Anton Voyl, to the disappearance of vowel E, not to be found in the book. Such ...violence against language is trickery against the algorithms of the system, duped within its own combinatory rules. Likewise, a vanished protagonist jeopardizes the narrative in the expression level, by creating an absence that paradoxically says something by not saying anything--a performative crime committed by literature. Voyl's disappearance is a black hole--or a white gap--which gulfs everything into the unknown, in a novel structured by the idea of absence. This suggests that any semiotic possibility, no matter how instable it is, lies in a gap, a silence, a difference in the so-called language continuum. Thus, we herein analyze how the semiotic notion of absence can empower reflection on the writing process as a crime in La disparition. Keywords: writing as violence, performative crime, French literature. La disparition, de Georges Perec, e um romance policial em que muito ha para ser desvendado do sumico do protagonista, Anton Voyl, ao sumico da vogal E, que nao aparece no livro. Essa violencia contra a lingua e uma trapaca contra os algoritmos do sistema, logrado no interior das proprias regras de combinatoria. Da mesma forma, um protagonista desaparecido vitima a narrativa no plano da expressao, criando uma ausencia que se diz, paradoxalmente, nao dizendo--crime performativo cometido pela literatura. O sumico de Voyl e um buraco negro--ou lacuna em branco--que tudo traga para o desconhecido, em um romance que se estrutura a partir da ideia de falta. Isso sugere que toda possibilidade semiotica, ainda que sempre labil, reside em um hiato, um silencio, uma diferenca no suposto continuum da lingua. Nesse contexto, o presente artigo analisa como a nocao semiologica de ausencia pode, em negativo, potencializar reflexoes sobre a propria escrita como crime e falta em La disparition. Palavras-chave: escrita como violencia, crime performativo, literatura francesa.
In 1975, Georges Perec published W ou le souvenir d'enfance, a work that is both fictional and autobiographical, and in which there are two different systems of enunciation side by side. In his book, ...Perec shows this undecidability between the imperative of narrating that which he hasn't lived and the complete impossibility of such narrative. By developing a narration strategy based on a certain use of fiction, Perec tries to face his lack of memories. This paper aims at analyzing how these two systems operate in order to create a double space where author and marrator get mixed up, creating a game in which the subject can only exist at the risk of his complete dissolution. Keywords: Perec; memory; ashes; disappearance. Em 1975, Georges Perec publica W ou lesouvenird'enfance, obra ao mesmo tempo ficcional e autobiografica, na qual dois regimes diferentes de enunciacao aparecem lado a lado. Em seu livro, Perec coloca em cena esse indecidivel entre o imperativo de narrar o que ele nao viveu e sua impossibilidade absoluta, desenvolvendo uma estrategia narrativa na qual, atraves da ficcao, ele procura enfrentar sua falta de lembrancas. O objetivo deste artigo e analisar o modo como esses dois regimes operam, permitindo a criacao de um espaco duplo em que autor e narrador nao cessam de se confundir em um jogo em que o sujeito so pode existir sob o risco de sua completa dissolucao. Palavras-chave: Perec; memoria; cinzas; desaparecimento. En 1975, Georges Perec fait publier W ou le souvenir d'enfance, reuvre a la fois fictionnelle et autobiographique ou deux regimes differents d'enonciation sont mis cote a cote. Dans ce texte, Perec met en scene cet indecidable entre l'imperatif de narrer ce qu'il n'a pas vecu et son impossibilite absolue, developpant une strategie narrative ou, a travers la fiction, il essaie de faire face a l'experience de son manque de souvenirs. Le but de cet article est d'analyser la facon dont ces deux regimes operent pour permettre la creation de cet espace double ou l'auteur et le narrateur ne cessent de se confondre dans un jeu ou le sujet ne peut exister qu'au risque de sa complete dissolution. Mots-cles: Perec; memoire; cendres; disparition.
In Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol, Priya Wadhera bridges the works of Perec and Warhol for the first time, illuminating a postmodern aesthetic where the original is devalued and the ...copy reigns supreme.
Dans un système d’écriture à contraintes, la contrainte, loin d’être un pur divertissement d’auteur, devient souvent « productive » à un niveau plus haut, en influençant non seulement la diégèse, ...mais aussi le plan sémantique du texte et, par conséquent, sa signification la plus profonde. Dans cet article nous étudierons cette propriété de la contrainte à partir de La Disparition de Georges Perec (1969) et de Sphynx d’Anne F. Garréta (1986). Nous démontrerons que les deux contraintes utilisées dans ces œuvres, le lipogramme chez Perec et le « lipogenre » chez Garréta, contribuent à la construction d’une écriture du manque, de l’absence, qui, en jouant sur l’occultation/disparition du genre, exploite les potentialités du « non-dit » et se fait, de façon fort inattendue, interprète de l’« indicible ».
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