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“All experience opens on to literature and all literature on to experience, and the path that leads from one to the other, whether it be literary creation or reading, establishes this relationship between the fragmentary and the whole…”

Fabulous collections essays and short stories pulled from across Perecs writings, every one of which is relatable and inspiring, reading these will actually make you want to write something yourself, and I think Perec would like that.

“First of all, the everyday examined from every angle, next the search by traditional means for my own life-story, then finally this fictive memory. There's even a fourth one, that would lie in the realm, how shall I put it, of the 'encrypted', of being inscribed completely in code, and that would be the notation of elements of memories in a fiction like”

“Space seems to be either tamer or more inoffensive than time; we're forever meeting people who have watches, very seldom people who have compasses. We always need to know what time it is (who still knows how to deduce it from the position of the sun?) but we never ask ourselves where we are. We think we know: we are at home, at our office, in the Metro, in the street.”

“…change them frequently, and change towns, and change countries; to speak and read any one of four or five languages; to feel at home nowhere, but at ease almost everywhere.”

“Reconsider some of the proposals made by the Surrealists for embellishing the town: The obelisk in the Concorde: round it off and put a steel feather of the right size on the summit The Tour Saint-Jacques: bend it slightly”