How Long to Read Georges Perec: A Life in Words

How Long Does it Take to Read Georges Perec: A Life in Words?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 46 minutes to read Georges Perec: A Life in Words by David Bellos

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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"It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994 George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation. David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which also provides the first full survey of Perec's irreverent, polymathic oeuvre - explores the life of an anguished, comical and endearingly modest man, who worked quietly as an archivist in a medical research library. The French son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he remained haunted all of his life by his father's death in the war, fighting to defend France, and his mother's in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His acclaimed novel A Void (1969) - written without using the letter "e" - has been seen as an attempt to escape from the words "père", "mere", and even "George Perec". His career made an auspicious start with Things: A Story of the Sixties (1965), which won the Prix Renaudot. He then pursued an idiosyncratic and ambitious literary itinerary through the intellectual ferment of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s.He belonged to the Ouvrior de Littérature Potentielle (OuLiPo), a radically inventive group of writers whose members included Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino. Perec achieved international celebrity with Life A User's Manual (1978), which won the Prix Medicis and was voted Novel of the Decade by the Salon du Livre. He died in his mid-forties after a short illness, leaving a truly puzzling detective novel, 53 Days, incomplete. "Professor Bellos's book enables us at once to relish the most wilfully bizarre aspects of Perec's oeuvre and to understand the whys and wherefores of his protean nature" - Jonathan Romney, Literary Review

How long is Georges Perec: A Life in Words?

Georges Perec: A Life in Words by David Bellos is 866 pages long, and a total of 221,696 words.

This makes it 292% the length of the average book. It also has 271% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Georges Perec: A Life in Words Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 11 minutes to read Georges Perec: A Life in Words aloud.

What Reading Level is Georges Perec: A Life in Words?

Georges Perec: A Life in Words is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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