W. or the Memory of Childhood

by Georges Perec (Author), Georges Perec (Author), D. Bellos (Translator)

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  Hardcover
  1988

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  Part adventure tale, part autobiography, this story alternates between two inextricably bound narratives, one a careful reconstruction of a childhood fantasy about a land in thrall to an Olympic ideal, the other a fragmentary tale of a wartime childhood. Georges Perec has written many novels including Un Cabinet d'amateur , Un Homme qui dort , Je me souviens and Les Choses. Une histoire des annees soixante , recipient of the Prix Renaudot 1965.