{"product_id":"i-remember-paperback","title":"I Remember - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorges Perec\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePhilip Terry\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDavid Bellos\u003c\/b\u003e (Commentaries by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring pointillist autobiography by Georges Perec, a master of postmodern fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe text of this memoir-through-memories consists of 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with \"I remember\" -- all limited to pieces of public knowledge, brand names and folk wisdom, actors and illnesses, places and things (\"I remember Herm s handbags, with their tiny padlocks\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs playful and puzzling as the best of Perec's novels, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Remember\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e began as a simple writing exercise, and grew into an expansive, exhilarating work of art: the image of one unmistakable and irreplaceable life, shaped from the material of our collective past. For this edition, Perec's 480 memories, sometimes obvious, sometimes obscure, have been elucidated and explained by critic, translator, and Perec biographer, David Bellos.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring pointillist autobiography, Georges Perec's I Remember is the last of this essential writer's major works to be translated into English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Consisting of 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with \"I remember,\" and all limited to pieces of public knowledge-brand names and folk wisdom, actors and illnesses, places and things (\"I remember: \"When parents drink, children tipple\"; \"I remember Hermes handbags, with their tiny padlocks\"; \"I remember myxomatosis\")-the book represents a secret key to the world of Perec's fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As critic, translator, and Perec biographer David Bellos notes in his introduction to this edition, since its original publication, \"It's hardly possible to utter the words je me souviens in French these days without committing a literary allusion.\" As playful and puzzling as the best of Perec's novels, I Remember began as a simple writing exercise, and grew into an expansive, exhilarating work of art: the image of one unmistakable and irreplaceable life, shaped from the material of our collective past. For this edition, Perec's 480 memories, sometimes obvious, sometimes obscure, have been elucidated and explained by David Bellos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book is manifestly autobiographical and also obeys a rigid (but not difficult) formal constraint. It is also one of the oddest works of literature ever written. Published in 1978 shortly after Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, won the M dicis Prize, I Remember is not a play, a poem, or a novel, and it's not a memoir in the ordinary sense either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701294239807,"sku":"9781567925173","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9cebf2458b788550ca8c350be279bd91.webp?v=1765020081","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/i-remember-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}