Google looks at the instructions of Georges Perec – Le Figaro

The famous author of The Disappearance would have been 80 years old today. To mark this anniversary, the American search engine dropped his “e”.

“Am I intrigued, am I bite my brakes, I who dreamed of poetry, night trains, hot sands? “questioned Georges Perec in 1965. More than fifty years after that famous quote from the book the Things , the scientific poet is honored with a Google doodle. Real vanguard of the French language, the artist has influenced generations of writers. Starting with a Houellebecq …

Genie of the pen, the writer experienced a meteoric rise in the world of beautiful letters in his first novel. With his book The Things , a philosophical work that attacks the materialistic emptiness of a society increasingly consumerist, the author manages to get at the dawn of its 29 years the prestigious Renaudot Price . A consecration for the young man who was originally launched in the librarian profession in neurophysiology …

While Georges Perec, with its sign bookstore success and confirms its success with the publication of his second collection a man sleeping (1967) which became a film with the help of Bernard Queysanne whose central character is Jacques Spiesser in 1974, the artist joined the Oulipo group literary that will forever change his vision of literature …

Life a user’s manual published in 1978, he won the Medicis prize for this funny novel e form of attempt to exhaust a portion of the real, which traces the life of a building located at number 11 of the street (imaginary) Simon Crubellier, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris between 1875 and 1975. He recalls his people, objects that are buried and stories that directly or indirectly facilitated.

international Training particularly influential writers and mathematicians in the years 60-70, the Oulipo, otherwise Olipo called, reveal the young Georges Perec himself. From that day, the author is no longer content to tell stories. It becomes a manufacturer of French and decides to cross-style exercises push boundaries. His novel The Disappearance (1969), built on over three hundred pages without the “e” is a perfect illustration.

Acclaimed by both the public and critics, his books became literary events passed each time to hundreds of thousands. Life instructions, I remember … to name but a few, are bestsellers which are still today date in the landscape of beautiful letters.

Rare author praised unanimously for its inventiveness, its work of novelist-scientific and experimental books, Georges Perec is a man who has survived the time and marked the generations. Often cited by contemporary writers, Michel Houellebecq, Virginie Despentes, Patrick Besson, or Enki Bilal, the Oulipian artist is not about to disappear libraries. Adapted to the theater, novels still have very bright future …