Volume 41, Number 18 · November 3, 1994
Hide and Seek
By Geoffrey O'Brien
Georges Perec: A Life in Words
by David Bellos
Godine, 802 pp., $45.00
In his monumental biography of the French writer Georges Perec (whose life outwardly was anything but monumental), David Bellos has realized in full the implications of his subtitle: A Life in Words. Literary biographies all too often shuttle warily between the life and the works of their subjects. On the one hand, psychology and gossip; on the other, synopsis and the handing out of grades. With Perec, as Bellos makes clear, life and work are not separable entities.
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