Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec

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Médicis (1978)

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to the memory of RAYMOND QUENEAU

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To begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance....
PART ONE, CHAPTER ONE
Yes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in this neutral place that belongs to all and none, where people pass by almost without seeing each other, where the life of the building regualrly and distantly resounds.

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