• Life: A User's Manual (original title La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by...
    12 KB (1,742 words) - 14:00, 26 January 2025
  • masterpiece, La Vie mode d'emploi (Life: A User's Manual) to Queneau, who died before it was published. Perec began working on a series of radio plays with his...
    22 KB (1,854 words) - 21:12, 21 June 2025
  • a means of triggering ideas and inspiration, most notably Perec's "story-making machine", which he used in the construction of Life: A User's Manual....
    16 KB (1,945 words) - 17:04, 22 July 2025
  • cent livres du siècle) is a list of the hundred most memorable books of the 20th century, regardless of language, according to a poll performed during the...
    21 KB (585 words) - 01:55, 25 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Epigraph (literature)
    epigraphs to the preamble of Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual (La Vie mode d'emploi) and to the book as a whole warn the reader that tricks are going...
    11 KB (1,328 words) - 12:17, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Muckanaghederdauhaulia
    were as follows: The area is mentioned in Georges Perec's novel Life: A User's Manual: "In between, there had been the little harbour of Muckanaghederdauhaulia...
    6 KB (382 words) - 15:44, 14 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Knight's tour
    tour which sets the order of the chapters in Georges Perec's novel Life a User's Manual. The sixth game of the World Chess Championship 2010 between Viswanathan...
    22 KB (2,318 words) - 14:05, 21 May 2025
  • automatically distinguishes between successful and unsuccessful users.": 179  Cybertext is a subcategory of ergodic literature that Aarseth defines as "texts...
    15 KB (723 words) - 05:50, 18 July 2025
  • ISBN 978-1-57174-161-5 The Little Book of Life: A User's Manual (October 1, 2010) ISBN 978-1-57174-644-3 Conversations with God in a Nutshell: A Pocket Guide to the Dialogue...
    19 KB (2,753 words) - 10:12, 17 July 2025
  • Invisible Cities (1972) Renata Adler – Speedboat (1976) Georges Perec – Life a User's Manual (1978) Sandra Cisneros – The House on Mango Street (1983) Milorad...
    7 KB (620 words) - 17:06, 14 May 2025
  • face in a glass. / The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his face in a glass." 1978 – Life A User's Manual by Georges...
    18 KB (2,313 words) - 20:06, 15 May 2025
  • Secrets, Sex. Perec also wrote Life A User's Manual using the Knight's Tour method of construction. The book is set in a fictional Parisian block of flats...
    13 KB (1,692 words) - 19:04, 15 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Jigsaw puzzle
    Translation is a poem about a child putting together a jigsaw puzzle, as well as an interpretive puzzle itself. Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec's...
    31 KB (3,481 words) - 21:22, 21 July 2025
  • different sonnet combinations, while Perec's novel Life: A User's Manual is based on the Knight's Tour on a chessboard. The British Angry Young Men of the...
    15 KB (1,884 words) - 13:30, 30 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of longest placenames in Ireland
    often believed to be Ireland's longest one-word place name. In Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, it is one of the ports visited and painted by...
    51 KB (3,024 words) - 02:20, 7 November 2024
  • translated Perec's major novel Life: A User's Manual (1978) from French into English. His prize-winning biography contains a full list of Perec's works....
    981 bytes (93 words) - 07:18, 21 February 2024
  • of a website in the frontier days of internet storytelling." Novels portal Constrained writing Electronic literature Hypertext fiction Life: A User's Manual...
    7 KB (693 words) - 03:48, 19 July 2025
  • translated much of the work of Perec into English, including the novel Life: A User's Manual. He won the first Man Booker International Prize for translation...
    8 KB (913 words) - 19:01, 4 May 2025
  • The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray (Scotland) Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec The Book of Laughter and...
    69 KB (8,013 words) - 16:29, 13 May 2025
  • similar techniques of "imperative storytelling" in novels such as Life: A User's Manual and Through the Looking-Glass. Braid is considered the definitive...
    88 KB (8,028 words) - 12:37, 7 May 2025
  • this book has appeared as the epigraph for the last chapter of Life: A User's Manual. Les Revenentes has also been translated into English, titled "The...
    5 KB (724 words) - 00:54, 23 May 2024
  • The French writer Georges Perec structured his 1978 novel Life: A User's Manual around a 10×10 Graeco-Latin square. 36 cube Block design Blocking (statistics)...
    42 KB (4,827 words) - 07:06, 13 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for June 1975
    practice before the court. The events of George Perec's 1978 novel Life: A User's Manual (La Vie mode d'emploi), as Peret describes each character's fate...
    43 KB (5,821 words) - 01:18, 20 July 2025
  • example in Life: A User's Manual: "M. et Mme Hocquard de Tours (I. & V.) have the joy of announcing the birth of their son Adhémar.". — (a [= elle] démarre...
    8 KB (1,026 words) - 08:39, 7 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Le Condottière
    as Life: A User's Manual and The Cabinet of an Amateur. Gaspard Winckler's name, for its part, reappears in W or the memory of childhood and Life: A User's...
    18 KB (2,375 words) - 12:01, 30 January 2025
  • building inspired by Georges Perec’s Life: A User's Manual, making it easier to interweave three libretti in a single twenty-four hour story. Twelve...
    6 KB (628 words) - 17:23, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The translation of The Dialect of the Tribe in French
    him to realize that a language can only say what it is capable of saying. This variant refers to a chapter of Life: A User's Manual by Perec, particularly...
    70 KB (8,504 words) - 22:09, 27 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Édith Scob
    26 June 2019) was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in Eyes Without a Face (1960). Scob...
    18 KB (446 words) - 00:52, 12 June 2025
  • novel Life a User's Manual explores an apartment building floor plan that doubles as an enlarged ten-by-ten chess board. Each chapter explores a new room...
    21 KB (2,525 words) - 23:33, 25 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cultural influence of Jules Verne
    and allusions to Verne appear in many of his novels, including Life A User's Manual, A Gallery Portrait, and W, or the Memory of Childhood. Perec once...
    29 KB (3,263 words) - 20:08, 6 July 2025