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Georges Perec

Georges Perec was a french writer who lived from 1936 to 1982.He lived in Paris,France. When he was young, he was orphaned and his aunt took care of him. This experience provided inspiration for some of his later works. His best selling novel was, “Things: A Story of the Sixties” and it was published in 1965. As time went on, he wrote more and more. By 1967, he had joined the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle or Oulipo for short. This group tried to form new types of literature and bringing back old ones. This group impacted his writing style and what he wrote about. In 1969, he wrote a book titled “La Disparition”, or “A Void”, in which he didn’t use the letter e within the entire book. Another piece similar to this one was written in 1972 and was named “Les Revenentes”. In this one, he only used the letter e as the vowel in each word. Perec also worked in other areas, making a film about Ellis Island in 1979. He also wrote a book called “I Remember” which was only about 480 sentences and and each line started with, I remember. This book outlined life in the 50’s and recorded many memories. Georges Perec brought many new forms of literature to the table. The writing styles he used had never been seen before and it resulted in his fame. During the time that he lived there were many wars, inventions, and innovations that shaped the world around him. He lived a long time ago but also got a taste of the direction the world was moving in. This gave him many of things to write about and events to shape his writing. Overall, Georges Perec did many things never seen before and showed people the things that could be possible in literature.