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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Some fading on cover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Parody pastiche satire or caricature? It is up to the reader to choose the term that best describes each of these texts which reveal the sometimes neglected aspect of Perec the scholar. Both taste and obligation led Georges Perec to examine the most varied disciplines in which he always acquitted himself more as a connoisseur than an amateur. Having adopted the ambitious project of trying his hand at all literary genres he was soon drawn to the particularly charming idea of imitating scientific texts; the pleasure of possessing encyclop?dic knowledge is thus united with the appeal of play trompe l’?il and deception. But Perec the parodist of course also retained character- istics of Perec the “serious” writer. Given his taste for exhaustiveness he gradually explored all of the possibilities on offer. By turn he became a neurophysiologist in order to report the results of an experiment on the effects of throwing tomatoes at divas an entomologist so as to study the hybridisation of butterflies on the Isle of Iputupi a hagiographer to celebrate the friendship between two great men and a historian to present the Cathedral of Chartres. (LL)