A “
peasant who would cultivate several fields
”.
This is how Georges Perec analyzes his creative work in
Le Figaro
in 1978. With this unpublished text, which will be taken up in 1985 in
Penser/Classer
, the writer makes a nice gift to
Le Figaro
.
The newspaper, however, has not always been kind to him.
In 1969, when his lipogrammatic novel
La Disparition
was published , the grammarian Maurice Chapelan had very little appreciated this "
hoax, or rather case of no art
", while playing the game of a criticism, also private. of "e".
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Often criticized or misunderstood for his "systematic versatility", the author who won the 1978 Prix Médicis for
La Vie Mode
d'emploi
tries to offer his readers the keys to his past and future work.
He defines his four fields of research: sociological, autobiographical, playful and romantic.
Almost four years later, on March 3, 1982, Perec died prematurely at the age of 45.
Article published in
Le Figaro
of December 8, 1978
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