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Cantatrix Sopranica L.

Cantatrix Sopranica L.

Scientific Papers

ISBN-13: 9781900565486

Contributor(s): Georges Perec

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: Atlas Press

Publisher Imprint: Atlas Press

Publication Date: 08-09-2008

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£12.00

About the book

Perec, the legendary author of Life: A User's Manual, was fascinated by the possibility of employing non-fictional languages for altogether more mischievous purposes. This volume collects various texts in which he uses the expressionless terminology of sociology, entomology and linguistics to achieve effects they are distinctly designed to avoid. Not surprisingly, it is experimental', but it is also strange, preposterous and highly entertaining. Harry Matthews co-wrote one of the essays.'