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W, or the Memory of Childhood

Georges Perec

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1975
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 160

A writer braids fragmentary memories of a childhood he can barely recall, his parents lost to the Holocaust, with an invented tale of an island obsessed with sport whose rules of competition turn out to be a death camp's machinery.

I have no childhood memories.
W, or the Memory of Childhood, Georges Perec

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