A way of reading a “book-library”: Perec’s rewriting in the composition of Life: a user’s manual

Authors

  • Carolina Augusto Messias USP – Universidade de São Paulo/ São Paulo – SP

Keywords:

Georges Perec, Gustave Flaubert, Rewriting, Erudition.

Abstract

This article presents and analyses some aspects of Georges Perec’s composition as shown in his book Life: a user’s manual (1978). Starting with the image of a “book-library”, composed by some of Perec’s literary ‘models’, and discussing the theory of intextertuality and rewriting, we propose to analyse some possible approximations between Perec and Flaubert, especially in the latter’s Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881).

 

Keywords: Georges Perec. Gustave Flaubert. Rewriting. Erudition.

Issue

Section

Vanguardas literárias do século XX