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Life: A User's Manual

La Vie mode d'emploi

by Georges Perec

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About Life: A User's Manual

Perec's 1978 masterpiece — an exhaustive description of a Parisian apartment building at one moment in time, organised by a knight's-tour constraint across a 10×10 grid of rooms; structured around the English millionaire Bartlebooth's fifty-year project of painting and destroying harbour watercolours; the most fully realised Oulipo novel.

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