A Man Asleep – Georges Perec (1967, Tr. 1990)
Days made of verbs and nouns. You have turned into Verbman, a Noun monster. No qualities – just doing, listing, discerning without acknowledging.
constrained writing
Life a User’s Manual – Georges Perec (1978, Tr. 1987)
Georges Perec’s Life a User’s Manual, a marvelous specimen of the Oulipean style itself, is a work which not only confirms that the writing still has it, but also exemplifies the unquenchable thirst for the unknown to burst straight out of it like…