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Georges Perec in the Pléiade!
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Here is Georges Perec, the unclassifiable, now grown so classic that he has just been inducted into the Pléiade! Perec and his wordplay, Perec and his constraint-based structures, his texts shaped like Latin squares, Perec and his "I remember the mathematical theory of transitivity," "I remember that every number whose digits add up to nine is divisible by nine," "I remember the tables of logarithms," Perec and his Disparition written without the letter "e" (lipogram in "e," Gallimard, 1989), Perec and his Revenentes written with no vowel other than "e" (Julliard, 1997), all of it in the most prestigious of collections. The books come in two volumes, Œuvres I and Œuvres II, and can also be grouped into a two-volume boxed set of 1,128 and 1,158 pages. "Nothing in the world is unique enough not to fit into a list," the Oulipian writer used to say. He is now on a list himself…
