If there has been a playful writer, it, without a doubt, has been Georges Perec. These days a book has been published that includes 236 reasons to read this artist of the word. Its titled Why Georges Perec? (The broken nail), and it is written by a perechian named Kim Nguyen, a curious guy who spends his life paying tributes to the author of Life instructions for use.
Without going any further, every June 23, Kim Nguyen visits a bookstore in Barcelona and buys a copy of Life instructions for use which he leaves in the hands of the bookseller or bookstore with very precise instructions for giving it as a gift. For those who do not know, June 23, 1975 is the date of the death of Percival Bartlebooth, who stars in the main story of a novel that is a hooligan, a game where Perec illustrates us about the elasticity of time; In six hundred pages he tells us the seconds that precede the death of this character.
What few people know is that from 1961 to 1978, Georges Perec worked at the National Center for Scientific Research of France as a documentary filmmaker, creating an indexing system to organize the collection of publications. He baptized this method as Flambo and it consisted of some cards to which he had made twenty-one divisions at the top with seven different colors, three for each color. In this way all the required information could be found in a short time.
In one year he organized a large part of the material contained in the center, making more than four thousand files, where he introduced erroneous data, playful touches that bore his humorous stamp; Perechian pranks after all, like inventing names and non-existent scientific discoveries. Classifying and getting involved in the database of his classification system was something very positive for him, as it opened new doors to a creativity that he would later put into practice in each of his fictions.
In one of his writings he tells us about his attraction to the number 0 as a reference point from which positions can be determined. What’s more, for Perec, space was as important as time. That’s why he himself wondered why a watch was more indispensable than a compass. The coordinates of time are nothing without those of space, he rightly said.
Although everyone thinks they know where they are, few people take stock of their topographical situation, few or no people relate the number 0 with a place or a being that we can think of. From these scientific delusions, Georges Perec builds a literary corpus unparalleled in contemporary literature. as good perechianKim Nguyen knows this and adds a coordinate to June 23, placing in the space of a bookstore the gift of a copy of Life instructions for use. Welcome be.
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