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Μικρές σημειώσεις για την τέχνη και τον τρόπο να τακτοποιούμε τα βιβλία μας

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Τρόποι τακτοποίησης των βιβλίων

ταξινόμηση αλφαβητική
ταξινόμηση κατά ηπείρους ή χώρες
ταξινόμηση κατά χρώματα
ταξινόμηση κατά την ημερομηνία απόκτησης
ταξινόμηση κατά την ημερομηνία έκδοσης
ταξινόμηση κατά μεγέθη
ταξινόμηση κατά είδη
ταξινόμηση κατά μεγάλες λογοτεχνικές περιόδους
ταξινόμηση κατά γλώσσες
ταξινόμηση κατά αναγνωστικές προτεραιότητες
ταξινόμηση κατά βιβλιοδεσίες
ταξινόμηση κατά εκδοτικές σειρές

Καμία από αυτές τις ταξινομήσεις δεν είναι από μόνη της ικανοποιητική. Στην πράξη, κάθε βιβλιοθήκη τακτοποιείται με βάση κάποιον συνδυασμό αυτών των τρόπων ταξινόμησης: Η εξισορρόπησή τους, η ανθεκτικότητά τους στην αλλαγή, η αχρηστία τους, η διατήρησή τους δίνουν σε κάθε βιβλιοθήκη μια μοναδική προσωπικότητα.

Είναι μια επιχείρηση βασανιστική, αποκαρδιωτική, που ενδεχομένως κρύβει ευχάριστες εκπλήξεις, όπως την επανεύρεση ενός βιβλίου που το είχαμε λησμονήσει, επειδή δεν το βλέπαμε, και το οποίο καταβροχθίζουμε τελικά πάλι, ξαπλωμένοι μπρούμυτα στο κρεβάτι, αναβάλλοντας για την επόμενη ό,τι δεν θα κάναμε αυθημερόν.

40 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2024

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About the author

Georges Perec

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Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.

Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.

Perec's first novel, Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties) was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965.

In 1978, Perec won the prix Médicis for Life: A User's Manual (French title, La Vie mode d'emploi), possibly his best-known work. The 99 chapters of this 600 page piece move like a knight's tour of a chessboard around the room plan of a Paris apartment building, describing the rooms and stairwell and telling the stories of the inhabitants.

Cantatrix Sopranica L. is a spoof scientific paper detailing experiments on the "yelling reaction" provoked in sopranos by pelting them with rotten tomatoes. All the references in the paper are multi-lingual puns and jokes, e.g. "(Karybb et Scyla, 1973)".

Perec is also noted for his constrained writing: his 300-page novel La disparition (1969) is a lipogram, written without ever using the letter "e". It has been translated into English by Gilbert Adair under the title A Void (1994). The silent disappearance of the letter might be considered a metaphor for the Jewish experience during the Second World War. Since the name 'Georges Perec' is full of 'e's, the disappearance of the letter also ensures the author's own 'disappearance'.

His novella Les revenentes (1972) is a complementary univocalic piece in which the letter "e" is the only vowel used. This constraint affects even the title, which would conventionally be spelt Revenantes. An English translation by Ian Monk was published in 1996 as The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex in the collection Three.

It has been remarked by Jacques Roubaud that these two novels draw words from two disjoint sets of the French language, and that a third novel would be possible, made from the words not used so far (those containing both "e" and a vowel other than "e").

W ou le souvenir d'enfance, (W, or, the Memory of Childhood, 1975) is a semi-autobiographical work which is hard to classify. Two alternating narratives make up the volume: one, a fictional outline of a totalitarian island country called "W", patterned partly on life in a concentration camp; and the second, descriptions of childhood. Both merge towards the end when the common theme of the Holocaust is explained.

Perec was a heavy smoker throughout his life, and was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1981. He died the following year in Ivry-sur-Seine at only forty-five-years old. His ashes are held at the columbarium of the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

David Bellos wrote an extensive biography of Perec: Georges Perec: A Life in Words, which won the Académie Goncourt's bourse for biography in 1994.

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Ένα απολαυστικό βιβλιαράκι με συμβουλές για ένα τόσο...τιτάνιο έργο!
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December 27, 2025
Ως ιδέες τέλειες. Τώρα μένει το χειρότερο, κυριότερο και ουδιωδέστερο... να βρω και κανέναν να έρθει να βοηθήσει να κάνουμε οργάνωση βιβλιοθήκης μέσα σε αυτίν τον χαμό! Πολύ το διασκέδασα διαβάζοντάς το <3
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Ένα μικρό και χαριτωμένο «βιβλίδιο», στο γνώριμο και αγαπημένο ύφος του Περέκ. Λέει λίγα, πολλά, ή και τα πάντα.
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