Georges Perec: Portrait of a Man
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- Kustantaja: Quercus Publishing
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781782060963
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Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic writer, Portrait of a Man is both Perec's first novel and his last. Frustrated in his efforts to find a publisher, he put it aside, telling a friend: 'I'll go back to it in ten years when it'll turn into a masterpiece, or else I'll wait in my grave until one of my faithful exegetes comes across it in an old trunk. ' An apt coda to one of the brightest literary careers of the twentieth century, it is — in the words of David Bellos, the 'faithful exegete' who brought it to light — 'connected by a hundred threads to every part of the literary universe that Perec went on to create — but it's not like anything else that he wrote'.