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9781567920888

53 Days

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  • ISBN13:

    9781567920888

  • ISBN10:

    1567920888

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-03-01
  • Publisher: David R Godine Pub

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Summary

Georges Perec, the celebrated author of Life A User's Manual (Godine, 1987), was working on this "literary thriller" at the time of his death. He had completed only 11 chapters of a planned 28, but left extensive drafts and notes supplying the rest of the mystery, as well as numerous twists and subplots. From these, Harry Mathews and Jacques Roubaud have assembled the elements of the unfinished mystery, along the way providing a fascinating view into the author's mind as he fashioned his literary conundrum.

Absorbing, allusive, and joyously playful, "53 Days" is the ultimate detective story. The narrator, a teacher in a tropical French colony, is trying to track down the famous crime-writer Robert Serval, who has mysteriously disappeared. Serval has left behind the manuscript of his last, unfinished novel, which may contain clues to his fate. From this beginning, Perec lures the reader into a labyrinth of mirror-stories whose solutions can only be glimpsed before they in turn recede around the corner.

In the tradition of Agatha Christie's And Then There Wer

Table of Contents

PART I 53 Days 1(103)
PART II ``Un R est un M qui se P le L de la R'' 103(24)
PART III Drafts 127(132)
Orange Exercise Book
131(12)
Rhodia Notepad
143(16)
Blue Exercise Book
159(10)
Notepad on the Bedside Shelf
169(2)
White Exercise Book
171(1)
Notes on the Drafted Chapters
172(8)
Black Ring-file
180(62)
Other Notes
242(17)
Five Notes on the Text 259(1)
Five Notes on the Translation 260

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