Lo que el lector recibe es un cúmulo interminable de información que no está puesta al azar, sino que intenta con esto generar una situación de cooperación de lectura entre ambas partes, autor y lector con el texto como nexo excluyente. The room’s walls are painted in white gloss. Several framed posters are hanging on them. One of them depicts four greedy-looking monks sitting at table around a Camembert cheese on the label of which four greedy-looking monks – the very same – are again at table around, etc. The scene is repeated distinctly four times over. It’s an existentialist work, in essence, tempered by its humanitarian outlook, but a book nonetheless about the pointlessness of human endeavour. The labours of the many characters contained here generally come to naught. It's easy for me to get carried away with this sort of thing. I'd like to think that the social power of goodreads could somehow manage to unearth all of these little hidden gems and collect them all in one space because that would be awesome. If you have stumbled across any of the other hidden literary allusions let me know!

In The Pattern in the Carpet, her recent memoir cum history of the jigsaw puzzle, Margaret Drabble pays tribute to Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec, an enormous experimental novel also concerned with jigsaw puzzles. romana biraz değinelim. Ana roman içinde birçok öykü ve novella barındırıyor. Bunlar bir kuyumcu titizliğiyle birbirine bağlanıyor. Paris’te, Simon-Crubellier Sokağı, No. 11 adresindeki on katlı bir apartmanın içinde 1883-1975 yılları arasında 92 yıl yaşayan bina sakinleri ve onların hayatlarına katılan kişiler, eşyalar, anlatılar, anılar ve apartmanın bölümleri üzerine yazılmış öyküler kurgulanarak dünyadaki yaşam, insanların hayatı anlatılıyor. Apartman dünyanın bir küçük maketi gibi.Sometimes our minds wonder here, there and everywhere!, in the case of Perec, he takes the concept of an imaginative mindset but rises to a whole other level. Paul Auster who was a big fan is quoted as saying 'a dazzling, crazy-quilt monument to the imagination', well, it's every bit dazzling, monumental in size, and as for imagination it's simply like nothing else I have ever come across. From the opening few chapters, right through to it's end, Perec's ingenious novel is complex, puzzling, serious, side-splitting funny and wholly original. Sunt lacrimae rerum…» («Υπάρχουν δάκρυα για τα πράγματα…»). Και τα δάκρυα των πραγμάτων είναι εξίσου σημαντικά με εκείνα των ανθρώπων, γιατί τελικά έχουν επενδυθεί με το σύνολο των προσδοκιών και των διαψεύσεών μας. Retratar un trozo de vida o más bien analizarlo, diseccionarlo con todos sus elementos, sin omitir nada. En concreto todo lo sucedido en un lugar determinado a lo largo del tiempo. Escrito por este enorme autor francés que se llamó Georges Perec entre 1969 y 1978, año en que fue publicado, se sitúa en el mismo pedestal que otras novelas únicas en el mundo de la literatura, novela enciclopédica por la gran cantidad de datos e información que posee, y construida a imagen y semejanza de un puzle o rompecabezas ya que su estructura se aparta de toda esquematización estructural, como “Rayuela” de Julio Cortázar, mientras que por otro lado es absolutamente vanguardista y transgresora como el “Ulises” de James Joyce, con la que posee varios puntos en común. His novella Les revenentes (1972) is a complementary univocalic piece in which the letter "e" is the only vowel used. This constraint affects even the title, which would conventionally be spelt Revenantes. An English translation by Ian Monk was published in 1996 as The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex in the collection Three.

Life A User's Manual (I follow Godine, the publisher of the translation, in omitting a comma or colon) takes place in an apartment in the 17th arrondissement, at 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier. A snapshot in time, the book centers on the moment of 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975, though the stories of its building’s inhabitants radiate in time and geography. El resultado es… abrumador. Hay tanta información que es difícil de asimilarlo todo, pero, en fin, es lo que hacemos en nuestro día a día, ¿o no? Realmente Perec propone un desafío literario del calibre del Ulises de Joyce, un desarrollo de la novela como herramienta de comprensión de la realidad. El famoso espejo de Stendahl se convierte aquí en un microscopio que nos quiere mostrar absolutamente todo, pero no ya los pensamientos como Joyce o Virginia Woolf, sino también las cosas materiales. Ostensibly, as we traverse the building and the matrix of descriptive details within, we are watching the creation of a painting by Serge Valene, an old artist who has lived in the building for 55 years.

What is a user manual?

Najneobičniji roman koji sam pročitao i možda najoriginalniji, krajnje zanimljivo iskustvo. Roman-slagalica. Na naslovnoj strani nas čeka podnaslov "Romani" i to nam pokazuje da nas očekuje mnogo različitih linija priče. Ideja je da se opišu životi svih, sadašnjih i bivših stanara jedne zgrade u Parizu. To je učinjeno kroz stotinak kratkih poglavlja u kojima se ukrštaju razne najčešće nepovezane priče i anegdote iz života ovih ljudi. Neki likovi su povezani međusobno, mnogi se pojavljuju samo na kratko, u malom delu jednog poglavlja. Rezultat: ova knjiga ima indeks na sedamdeset strana! Poželjno je zavidno pamćenje koje meni nedostaje tako da sam često koristio indeks. To se ne može izbeći. Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) ιδρύθηκε το 1960 ως μια ομάδα Γάλλων συγγραφέων και μαθηματικών που ενδιαφέρθηκαν να γράψουν κάτι που ήταν περιορισμένο. Μπορούμε να ξεχωρίσουμε δύο βασικές τάσεις του κινήματος. Η μία είναι προς την Ανάλυση και η άλλη προς τη Σύνθεση. Life Fitness is a renowned brand known for its exceptional range of fitness products. From hometrainers to crosstrainers, treadmills to bicycle trainers, rowing machines, and many more, Life Fitness provides a comprehensive collection of fitness equipment to cater to all your exercise needs. Whether you are a dedicated athlete or a casual fitness enthusiast, Life Fitness has the perfect product to help you achieve your fitness goals. User manuals tell your audience you care about their experience. A user manual that is informative, easy to understand, and (most of all) useful can help you build a stronger relationship with your customers and strengthen your brand image. Long experimental French novels don’t usually attract me, and Drabble admits that the same is true of her, so the book seemed worth exploring.