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W, or the Memory of Childhood

Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 164 pages

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