Georges Perec

Director & actor · born 7 March 1936 · Paris, France

Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was murdered in the Holocaust, and many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play.

Where to start: The Places of a Fugue (1978).