Life: A User's Manual

Georges Perec

Life: A User's Manual
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 June 2003
Pages
608
ISBN
9780099449256

Life: A User’s Manual

Georges Perec

‘The last major event in the history of the novel’ Italo Calvino

In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of every more unlikely tales, which range from an avenging murderer to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime…

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