Rejected by publishers and then lost for 50 years, this tale of an art forger whose attempt to go beyond imitation ends in murder is awkward but fascinating A master forger conceives of a fantastic ...

And so another “lost” first book, rejected by publishers and left in a suitcase, appears. But this time it is different. Georges Perec’s debut is virtuosic in execution and is not merely a curiosity ...

One of France’s most daring postwar writers, perhaps best known for writing an entire novel without the letter “e” (a lipogram), French-Jewish author Georges Perec, is coming back into vogue. Two of ...

2013 really has been Georges Perec's year. With the first English translation of his dream journal, La Boutique Obscure, out earlier this year from Melville House, and a new collection of Oulipian ...

The Anglophone world is currently undergoing one of its periodical revivals — this time, of the panegyric experimentalism and formalist frolics of the French avant-garde literary collective Oulipo.

A token of the world's instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems: Must the artist struggle against chance in pursuit of a ...

Having resolved to exercise your brain and refresh your literary palate you decide to read this newly translated 1968 text by the deceased experimental french writer georges perec who is celebrated ...

Georges Perec was 75 last month. It needs to be said that he died in 1982; but there are many ways in which he is still alive. Shortly after his death, a planet was named after him (a small one, ...

• A Nation puzzle solver’s blog where you can ask for and offer hints.] Writing cryptic clues is a form of constrained writing. To begin with, for each entry, one has to include both definition and ...

It took me a long time to get to grips with Perec, but I’m glad I did. By Margaret Drabble I am ashamed of my record with the French ­novelist and essayist Georges Perec. For years, I ignorantly ...

• A Nation-puzzle solver’s blog where you can ask for and offer hints, and where every one of our clues is explained in great detail.] That essay’s introductory paragraphs are perhaps the best summary ...