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First printing, quite hard to find

Perec composed ten New Year's greetings, "texticules" built on homophonic riddles, in the form of mimeographed pamphlets that he sent to his friends each year. Each was printed in around a hundred copies.“Les Adventures de Dixion Harry” (1975) is the fourth in the series, following “Petit abécédaire illustré” (New Year 1970), “Lieux communs travaillés” (1972)…

Perec's evenings of recorded music

The earliest known text by Perec

Perec had just returned from his trip to Belgrade, which prompted him to begin writing his first novel, L'Attentat de Sarajevo, announced here. He had high hopes for its publication. He replies to a card he has just received from his friend upon his return from Yugoslavia, “nearly a month late,” and proposes a meeting…

Two letters follow one another, interspersed with a reply from Quilliet that is now lost, and can only have been written in December 1956. A pivotal moment.“Cher et illustre,Un gosse veut faire sa seconde. Il vient de sa lointaine Tunisie. Il doit être interne. Est-ce possible à Dreux ? Je te le recommande — c'est…

Perec's early poetic apprenticeship