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Penguin Great Ideas: Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books

Georges Perec


  • Penguin UK - Great Ideas Series
One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language, he discusses different ways of reading, a list of the things he really must do before he dies and the power of words to overcome the chaos of the world. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series.

ISBN 9780241475218 | E | PB
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Publisher Penguin UK - Great Ideas Series
ISBN 9780241475218
Publication date September 2020
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 181 x 111 mm
Pages 112
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language, he discusses different ways of reading, a list of the things he really must do before he dies and the power of words to overcome the chaos of the world. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.