Funny Old Fame
Patrick Parrinder, 10 January 1991
Things: A Story of the Sixties,
by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos and Andrew Leak.
Collins Harvill, 221 pp., £12.50, July 1990,0 00 271038 2 Show More
by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos and Andrew Leak.
Collins Harvill, 221 pp., £12.50, July 1990,
Parcours Peree
edited by Mireille Ribière.
Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 162 pp., frs 125, July 1990,2 7297 0365 9 Show More
edited by Mireille Ribière.
Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 162 pp., frs 125, July 1990,
Women
by Philippe Sollers, translated by Barbara Bray.
Columbia, 559 pp., $24.95, December 1990,0 231 06546 9 Show More
by Philippe Sollers, translated by Barbara Bray.
Columbia, 559 pp., $24.95, December 1990,
“... Once upon a time, before the Channel Tunnel was built, there were two contemporary French novelists. Georges Perec died in 1982 at the age of 45, and nobody in England who was not a French specialist had ever heard of him. With Philippe Sollers it was different. Editor of the avant-garde theoretical journal Tel Quel, and associate of literary and psycho-analytic thinkers such as Barthes, Kristeva and Lacan, his was a name of which no self-respecting British intellectual could afford to remain entirely ignorant – though his novels, so far as I can discover, were neither translated nor read ... ”
