Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books

A problem of space first of all then a problem of order. One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay puzzles taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language he discusses different ways of reading a list of the things he really must do before he dies and the power of words to overcome the chaos of the world.. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today from anarchists to stoics feminists to prophets satirists to Zen Buddhists.|One of the most important post-war French novelists Georges Perec was only 42 when he died in 1982. He is the author of LIFE A USER'S MANUAL. THE WINTER JOURNEY has been published as a Penguin Syren.|'A problem of space first of all then a problem of order'One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay puzzles taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language he discusses different ways of reading a list of the things he really must do before he dies and the power of words to overcome the chaos of the world.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today from anarchists to stoics feminists to prophets satirists to Zen Buddhists.