Thoughts of Sorts: Introduced by Margaret Drabble

Georges Perec (author), David Bellos (translator), Margaret Drabble (author of introduction)

Hardback Published on: 04/04/2011; Language: French (Original language of a translated text), English

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Synopsis

Celebrated as the man who wrote an entire novel without using the letter 'e', and another in the form of a vast jigsaw puzzle, Georges Perec found humour - and pathos - in the human need for arrangement and classification. The essays in Thoughts of Sorts explore the rules by which we find a place in the world. Is thinking a kind of sorting? Is sorting a kind of thought?