UnSearching for Rue Simon-Crubellier: Perec out-of-sync

The Afterlives of Georges Perec, Rowan Wilken & Justin Clemens, 2017
Published by: Edinburgh University Press

This collection of responses to Perec's work includes Darren Tofts essay: 'What might seem like a surfeit of epigrams prefacing this tapestry that you are about to Unweave (essay, text, fly specs on a page or screen, the subliminal flicker of codified light), this assemblage of samples already performs what you are about to do in reading this text.' The tapestry referred to is 'Life, a User's Manual', Perec's masterpiece first published in 1978. Toft's rich response weaves in the work of many artists most notably Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda's project, 'Searching for Rue Simon-Crubellier' (2004) and Ian Breakwell's Unword (1970).