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The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

Georges Perec

It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don't know how to live and you will never know

Georges Perec

Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

Georges Perec

Georges Perec

Georges Perec

Born: March 7, 1936

Died: March 3, 1982 (aged 45)

Bio: Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group.

Known for:

Life a User's Manual (1978)
A Void (1969)
Things: A Story of the Sixties (1965)
W, or the Memory of Childhood (1975)
A Man Asleep (1967)

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