Life - A User's Manual (Perec Georges)(Paperback / softback)

Life - A User's Manual (Perec Georges)(Paperback / softback)

Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of every more unlikely tales, which range from an avenging murderer to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate

Georges Perec and the Oulipo: Winter Journeys (Perec Georges)(Pevná vazba)

In 1979, Georges Perec (1936-1982) wrote a brief entertainment called 'The Winter Journey' for a publisher's catalogue. It quickly became his most frequently reprinted short story. Set on the eve of World War II, it recounts the discovery of a great literary masterpiece that conceals a scandalous

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Perec Georges)(Paperback)

'One of the most significant literary personalities in the world.'--Italo Calvino Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User's Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (Perec Georges)(Paperback)

One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the 'infraordinary': the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--'what happens,' as he put it, 'when nothing happens.' His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he

Life: A User's Manual - Life Advice from the Great Philosophers to Get You Through (Baggini Julian)(Paperback / softback)

How should I live?What is my purpose?Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B.Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions

I Remember (Perec Georges)(Paperback)

'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available in English to UK readers for the first time, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with 'I

Void (Perec Georges)(Paperback / softback)

Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant

The Panasonic DMC-Fz1000 User's Manual (Houghton Graham)(Paperback)

A black and white illustrated user's manual for the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ1000 camera covering both the basic camera set up in the full auto (intelligent auto) and all the other, semi-automatic and manual modes. Plenty of illustrations and examples of the effects of the control settings and

Život návod k použití - Georges Perec

Život návod k použití (1978) je nejen? vrcholným dílem Georgese Pereca, ale i jednou z nejúchvatnějších a při svém záměrném omezení také nejkomplexnějších knih světové literatury 20. století – pro svou šíři, uspořádání, množství informací a odkazu°, humornou

Your Life After Death (Reccia Michael George)(Paperback / softback)

Co je to tam vzadu na dvoře za kolo s chromovanými řídítky? - Georges Perec

Perecova novela Co je to tam vzadu na dvoře za kolo s chromovanými řídítky? (1966) vychází z oulipovské tradice 'potenciální literatury' a na první pohled se vyznačuje rozvernou hravostí, jazykovou komikou i formální vytříbeností. Čtenářovu pozornost neudržuje ani tak

W or The Memory of Childhood (Perec Georges)(Paperback / softback)

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 deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to search for him, who discovers W, an island state

George Michael - The Life 1963-2016 (Herbert Emily)(Paperback / softback)

News - A User's Manual (Botton Alain de)(Paperback / softback)

With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the

Through the Storms - A manual for when life hurts (Gaudion Eric)(Paperback / softback)

A User's Manual (Kolar Jiri)(Pevná vazba)

Written in the 1950s and '60s, the 'action poems' comprising a A User's Manual were published in their complete form in 1969 when they were paired with the 52 collages of Weekly 1967, the first of Kol ř's celebrated series in which he commented visually on a major event for each week of the year

Crime at Mayerling - The Life & Death of Mary Vetsera (Markus Georg)(Paperback / softback)

Road to Middlemarch - My Life with George Eliot (Mead Rebecca (New Yorker))(Paperback / softback)

A celebration of George Eliot's life, work and greatest novel, exploring through a mixture of literary biography, deep reading and personal memoir how Middlemarch answers fundamental questions about life and

Troubleshooting Relationships on the Autism Spectrum: A User's Guide to Resolving Relationship Problems (Stanford Ashley)(Paperback)

Don't you wish relationships came with a manual? Ashley Stanford has written a user's guide to relationships that adopts a practical troubleshooting approach to resolving difficulties that will greatly appeal to the logical minds of individuals on the autism spectrum, as well as offering valuable

Thoughts of Sorts - Introduced by Margaret Drabble (Perec Georges)(Pevná vazba)

Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by

Penguin Book of Oulipo - Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form(Paperback / softback)

Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life (George Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard Training Manual - As Used by Dad's Army (Mainwaring Captain George)(Paperback / softback)

'Bliss on Toast', the perfect gift book of Christmas

Věci - Georges Perec

Perecův knižní debut Věci (1965) je příběhem mladého páru, jehož vztah ke světu se uskutečňuje prostřednictvím vlastnění, spotřebou, nakupováním a pořizováním uměleckých předmětů, nábytku a pomůcek každodenního života. Jérôme a Sylvie se ocitají ve vleku touhy po