Space: a user's manual.The work of Georges Perec

Authors

  • Claudia Amigo Pino

Keywords:

Espaço e Literatura, Georges Perec, A vida modo de usar

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the role of space in contemporary novel, specially the novels of the French writer Georges Perec (1936-1982). We chose a particular space for this analysis: the page. For that purpose, fi rstly we use the theory of Bachelard, Bakhtin and Perec himself and following we present analysis of two kinds of pages proposed by Perec in the novel Life: a user’s manual (1978). Keywords: Space and literature. Georges Perec. Life: a user’s manual.

Published

27/10/2009

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