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==Works== ===Books=== The most complete bibliography of Perec's works is Bernard Magné's ''Tentative d'inventaire pas trop approximatif des écrits de Georges Perec'' (Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1993). {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Original French ! English translation |- | 1965 | ''Les Choses'' (Paris: René Juillard, 1965) | ''Things: A Story of the Sixties'', trans. by [[Helen Lane]] (New York: Grove Press, 1967);<br />''[[Things: A Story of the Sixties]]'' in ''Things: A Story of the Sixties & A Man Asleep'' trans. by [[David Bellos]] and Andrew Leak (London: Vintage, 1999) |- | 1966 | ''Quel petit vélo à guidon chromé au fond de la cour?'' (Paris: Denoël, 1966) | ''[[Which Moped with Chrome-plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard?]]'', trans. by [[Ian Monk]] in ''Three by Perec'' (Harvill Press, 1996) |- | 1967 | ''Un homme qui dort'' (Paris: Denoël, 1967) | ''[[A Man Asleep]]'', trans. by Andrew Leak in ''Things: A Story of the Sixties & A Man Asleep'' (London: Vintage, 1999) |- | 1969 | ''La Disparition'' (Paris: Denoël, 1969) | ''[[A Void]]'', trans. by [[Gilbert Adair]] (London: Harvill, 1994) |- | 1969 | ''Petit traité invitant à la découverte de l'art subtil du [[Go (game)|go]]'', with Pierre Lusson and [[Jacques Roubaud]] (Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1969) | ''A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go'', trans. by Peter Consenstein (Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2019) |- | 1972 | ''Les Revenentes'', (Paris: Editions Julliard, 1972) | ''The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex'', trans. by Ian Monk in ''Three by Perec'' (Harvill Press, 1996) |- | 1972 | ''Die Maschine'', (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1972) | ''The Machine'', trans. by Ulrich Schönherr in "The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Georges Perec Issue: Spring 2009 Vol. XXIX, No. 1" (Chicago: Dalkey Archive, 2009) |- | 1973 | ''La Boutique obscure: 124 rêves'', (Paris: Denoël, 1973) | ''La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams,'' trans. by Daniel Levin Becker (Melville House, 2013) |- | 1974 | ''{{ill|Espèces d'espaces|fr}}'' (Paris: Galilée 1974) | ''Species of Spaces and Other Pieces'', ed. and trans. by [[John Sturrock (writer)|John Sturrock]] (London: Penguin, 1997; rev. ed. 1999) |- | 1974 | ''Ulcérations'', (Bibliothèque oulipienne, 1974) | — |- | 1975 | ''W ou le souvenir d'enfance'' (Paris: Denoël, 1975) | ''[[W, or the Memory of Childhood]]'', trans. by David Bellos (London: Harvill, 1988) |- | 1975 | ''Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien'' (Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1975) | ''[[An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris]]'', trans. by Marc Lowenthal (Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2010) |- | 1976 | ''Alphabets'' illust. by [[Dado (painter)|Dado]] (Paris: Galilée, 1976) | — |- | 1978 | ''Je me souviens'', (Paris: Hachette, 1978) | ''Memories'', trans./adapted by Gilbert Adair (in ''Myths and Memories'' London: HarperCollins, 1986);<br />''I Remember'', trans. by Philip Terry and David Bellos (Boston: David R. Godine, 2014) |- | 1978 | ''La Vie mode d'emploi'' (Paris: Hachette, 1978) | ''[[Life: A User's Manual]]'', trans. by David Bellos (London: Vintage, 2003) |- | 1979 | ''Les mots croisés'', (Mazarine, 1979) | — |- | 1979 | ''Un cabinet d'amateur'', (Balland, 1979) | ''A Gallery Portrait'', trans. by Ian Monk in ''Three by Perec'' (Harvill Press, 1996) |- | 1980 | ''La Clôture et autres poèmes'', (Paris: Hachette, 1980) – Contains a [[palindrome]] of 1,247 words (5,566 letters).<ref>Georges Perec: [http://homepage.urbanet.ch/cruci.com/lexique/palindrome.htm "Le grand palindrome"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105062829/http://homepage.urbanet.ch/cruci.com/lexique/palindrome.htm |date=5 January 2014 }} in ''La clôture et autre poèmes'', Hachette/Collection P.O.L., 1980</ref> | — |- | 1980 | ''Récits d'Ellis Island: Histoires d'errance et d'espoir'', (INA/Éditions du Sorbier, 1980) | ''Ellis Island and the People of America'' (with [[Robert Bober]]), trans. by [[Harry Mathews]] (New York: New Press, 1995) |- | 1981 | ''Théâtre I'', (Paris: Hachette, 1981) | — |- | 1982 | ''Epithalames'', (Bibliothèque oulipienne, 1982) | — |- | 1985 | ''Penser Classer'' (Paris: Hachette, 1985) |''Thoughts of Sort'', trans. by David Bellos (Boston: David R. Godine, 2009) |- | 1986 | ''Les mots croisés II'', (P.O.L.-Mazarine, 1986) | — |- | 1989 | ''53 Jours'', unfinished novel ed. by [[Harry Mathews]] and [[Jacques Roubaud]] (Paris: P.O.L., 1989) | ''53 Days'', trans. by David Bellos (London: Harvill, 1992) |- | 1989 | ''L'infra-ordinaire'' (Paris: Seuil, 1989) | — |- | 1989 | ''Voeux'', (Paris: Seuil, 1989) | ''Wishes'', trans. by Mara Cologne Wythe-Hall (Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2018) |- | 1990 | ''Je suis né'', (Paris: Seuil, 1990) | — |- | 1991 | ''Cantatrix sopranica L. et autres écrits scientifiques'', (Paris: Seuil, 1991) | "Cantatrix sopranica L. Scientific Papers" with [[Harry Mathews]] (London: Atlas Press, 2008) |- | 1992 | ''L.G.: Une aventure des années soixante'', (Paris: Seuil, 1992)<br />Containing pieces written from 1959 to 1963 for the journal ''La Ligne générale'': Le Nouveau Roman et le refus du réel; Pour une littérature réaliste; Engagement ou crise du {{not typo|langage}}; Robert Antelme ou la vérité de la littérature; L'univers de la science-fiction; La perpétuelle reconquête; ''Wozzeck'' ou la méthode de l'apocalypse. | — |- | 1993 | ''Le Voyage d'hiver'', 1993 (Paris: Seuil, 1993) | ''The Winter Journey'', trans. by [[John Sturrock (writer)|John Sturrock]] (London: Syrens, 1995) |- | 1994 | ''Beaux présents belles absentes'', (Paris: Seuil, 1994) | — |- | 1999 | ''Jeux intéressants'' (Zulma, 1999) | — |- | 1999 | ''Nouveaux jeux intéressants'' (Zulma, 1999) | — |- | 2003 | ''Entretiens et conférences'' (in 2 volumes, Joseph K., 2003) | — |- | 2008 | ''L'art et la manière d'aborder son chef de service pour lui demander une augmentation'' (Hachette) | ''[[The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise]]'' (published in the United States as ''The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise''), trans. by [[David Bellos]] (Verso, 2011) |- | 2012 | ''[[Le Condottière]]'' (Éditions du Seuil, 2012) | ''Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere'', translated by David Bellos (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014) |- | 2016 | ''L'Attentat de Sarajevo'' (Éditions du Seuil, 2016) |- | 2019 | ''Entretiens, conférences, textes rares, inédits'' (in one volume, 1104 p., Joseph K., 2019) |} ===Films=== *''Un homme qui dort'', 1974 (with Bernard Queysanne, English title: ''[[The Man Who Sleeps]]'') *''Les Lieux d'une fugue'', 1975 *''[[Série noire (film)|Série noire]]'' ([[Alain Corneau]], 1979) *''Ellis Island'' (TV film with Robert Bober)
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