The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise
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The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise by Georges Perec
A novel that dispenses with the normal rules for literary composition.
This Parisian-born author is famous, not to say notorious, for his puns, parody, circular plotting, skittish wit and word-wizardry of all sorts * Independent *
To read Georges Perec one must be ready to abandon oneself to a spirit of playHis books are studded with intellectual traps, allusions and secret systems, and they are prodigiously entertaining -- Paul Auster
Perec is serious fun * Guardian *
Perec was a polymathic genius, and his early death in 1982 (he was only 45) robbed France of its most dazzling experimental writer, one who tried everything and failed at nothing...He has, deservedly, become a cult in France, particularly with young Parisians, who instinctively (and rightly) identify him as the super-zapper, the biographer of their fragmented consumer culture, of which he was himself the creation * Glasgow Herald *
No punctuation, no pauses. This is the stuff of a dream comic monologue. Admirers of Perec will love the razor-sharp whimsy of this clever little tract, which could be so well delivered by a gifted stand-up such as Dylan Moran...In common with Thomas Pynchon, Perec had a love of literary devices, particularly catalogues, lists and descriptions of objects. Riddles, pubs, allusions and games dominate his work, Above all, though, for all the cleverness there is the punchy comic timing and an engaging humanity -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
To read Georges Perec one must be ready to abandon oneself to a spirit of playHis books are studded with intellectual traps, allusions and secret systems, and they are prodigiously entertaining -- Paul Auster
Perec is serious fun * Guardian *
Perec was a polymathic genius, and his early death in 1982 (he was only 45) robbed France of its most dazzling experimental writer, one who tried everything and failed at nothing...He has, deservedly, become a cult in France, particularly with young Parisians, who instinctively (and rightly) identify him as the super-zapper, the biographer of their fragmented consumer culture, of which he was himself the creation * Glasgow Herald *
No punctuation, no pauses. This is the stuff of a dream comic monologue. Admirers of Perec will love the razor-sharp whimsy of this clever little tract, which could be so well delivered by a gifted stand-up such as Dylan Moran...In common with Thomas Pynchon, Perec had a love of literary devices, particularly catalogues, lists and descriptions of objects. Riddles, pubs, allusions and games dominate his work, Above all, though, for all the cleverness there is the punchy comic timing and an engaging humanity -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
Georges Perec (1936-82) won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 for his first novel Things: A Story of the Sixties, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial to the deeply personal. He composed acrostics, anagrams, autobiography, criticism, crosswords, descriptions of dreams, film scripts, heterograms, lipograms, memories, palindromes, plays, poetry, radio plays, recipes, riddles, stories short and long, travel notes, univocalics, and, of course, novels. Life: A User's Manual, which draws on many of Perec's other works, appeared in 1978 after nine years in the making and was acclaimed a masterpiece to put beside Joyce's Ulysses. It won the Prix Medicis and established Perec's international reputation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099541226 |
| ISBN 10 | 009954122X |
| Title | The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise |
| Author | Georges Perec |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
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