Status Updates From Georges Perec: A Life in Words

Last part is sources.
Very good biography.

"I detest what’s called psychology, especially in fiction. I prefer books in which characters are described by their actions, their gestures, and their surroundings. [ . . . ] It’s something that belongs to the great tradition of realism in the English and German novel of the nineteenth century, which I’ve exaggerated a little, almost taking it to hyperrealism."
Georges Perec, speaking in Warsaw on 5 April 1981

Oulipo is here.
"The name OuLiPo stands for Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or “Workshop for Potential Literature”."

From an essay by Perec
"There is no epoch, no condition, no crisis that the mind cannot grasp;...no situation that cannot be mastered, no phenomenon that reason and language, feeling and rationality cannot conquer. Out of the collapse of Germany came Doktor Faustus; it was on his return from a concentration camp that Robert Antelme wrote L’Espèce humaine, one of the finest books to the glory of mankind."

So far, a really good biography.
What a childhood, scars of WWII and Jewish identity. Never goes away. The struggles of an artist.

The chapter on Life A Users Manual cover a load of the Oulipian strategies Perec used when writing the book. My word - the complexity. Amazing