Translated from the French by John Sturrock


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‘Nine beers, two Tuborgs, four Guinnesses.’
Translated from the French by John Sturrock
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‘Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me—
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Georges Perec was born in Paris in 1936 and died in the same city four days before his forty-sixth birthday in 1982. His parents were Jews who had migrated to France from Poland; both died during the Second World War – his father as a soldier during the German invasion of France, his mother in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His works include Les Choses, which was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965, and W ou le souvenir d'enfance.
More about the author →John Sturrock is a writer, critic and translator. He is Consulting Editor at the London Review of Books. His translations include Stendhal’s The Charterhouse of Parma, Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust’s Days of Reading.
More about the translator →Entries from Georges Perec’s I Remember, translated from the French by Philip Terry and David Bellos.
‘She liked to eat until her thighs felt gelatinous and slick with sweat, and her stomach ballooned out, sore and firm as though she had drunk cement that had now set.’
‘Each bite exploded temporally, an exquisite blend of past and future that put you firmly in the present moment.’
‘Sometimes we don’t quite know what we’re seeing.’
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