Tall Storeys
Patrick Parrinder, 10 December 1987
Life: A User’s Manual
by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos.
Collins Harvill, 581 pp., £15, October 1987,0 00 271463 9 Show More
by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos.
Collins Harvill, 581 pp., £15, October 1987,
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room
by Paul Auster.
Faber, 314 pp., £10.95, November 1987,0 571 14925 1 Show More
by Paul Auster.
Faber, 314 pp., £10.95, November 1987,
“... Like Hoyle and Stephen Potter, Georges Perec was a devotee of indoor games. La Vie Mode d’Emploi (1978), a title combining lifemanship, gamesmanship and one-upmanship, was the monumental creation of an author whose other productions included a treatise on Go (the Japanese board-game) and a weekly crossword for the magazine Le Point ... ”