Books
Life A User’s Manual (Georges Perec)
PARIS BOOK
La Vie mode d’emploi
Tapestry of interwoven stories based on the lives of the inhabitants of a fictitious Parisian apartment block
(postmodern fiction with literary and historical allusions)
“treatise on the theme of jigsaw puzzles where every chapter is a piece in a puzzle”
– Vit Babenco
“I couldn’t finish this. But you’ll probably like it”
– anon.
Life A User’s Guide
George Perec
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Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
London and Paris before and during the French Revolution
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …”
Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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