Examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the work of the French writer Georges Perec. This book explores the ways in which Perec’s texts exploit the possibilities…

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old…

Written by a mathematician, a poet, and a mathematician-poet, this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in…