I Remember

Synopsis

At once an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring pointillist autobiography, Perec's I Remember is the last of this essential writer's major works to be translated into English. Consisting of 480 numbered statements, all beginning with "I remember," and all limited to pieces of public knowledge--brand names and folk wisdom, actors and illnesses, places and things--the book represent s a secret key to the world of Perec's fiction.