Perec en Amérique: la traversée identitaire. Par Jean-Jacques Thomas Une vie dans les mots des autres: le geste intertextuel dans l’œuvre de Georges Perec. Par Raoul Delemazure

Abstract

Jean-Jacques Thomas’s Perec en Amérique adds some interesting details to what is known about Georges Perec’s five trips to the United States and Canada. With his enviable team of research assistants, Thomas has combed publishers’ archives, manuscript collections, and other sources to find more traces of Perec’s passage than were previously imagined. However, his persistent sleuthing has led him up at least one wrong path. It may be a curious fact that the Frank Lloyd Wright house that Perec visited during his first trip to America in 1967 was commissioned by Katherine Winckler, but that is no reason to claim, as Thomas does (pp....