Telling about Society

by Howard S. Becker

Book Overview

I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs--each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and 50s.

Taking Perec's book as its cue, Telling About Society explores the unconventional ways we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226041263
• ISBN13: 9780226041261
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"