On se souvient de Georges Perec: Forty years after La Vie mode d’emploi

‌NUI, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 | Wednesday 5 December, 2018

The one-day colloquium on French novelist Georges Perec will be held in the NUI (49 Merrion Square, Phelan Room) on Wednesday 5 December. The event marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Perec's major novel La Vie mode d'emploi; papers look both at his work and at his later influence.

10.30 Arrival, tea/coffee, welcome

11.00 David Gascoigne (St Andrews): Georges Perec, or How to fill empty spaces

11.40 Douglas Smith (UCD): Lists and listlessness: The space of melancholy inventories in Perec's Je me souviens and La Vie mode d'emploi

12.20 Dominique Jeannerod (QUB): Suicide, a user’s manual: Perec, Corneau, Thompson and Série Noire

1.00-1.30 Discussion

1.30-2.30 Lunch

2.30-3.10 Michael G. Kelly (UL): Perec, Modiano and the geography of constraint

3.10-3.50 Dervila Cooke (DCU): Affect in Modiano and Perec, with special reference to Je me souviens and W ou le souvenir de l’enfance

3.50-4.30 Emer O’Beirne (UCD): Jean Echenoz and Georges Perec: Negotiating occupied territory

4.30-5.00 Discussion

‌Nous tenons à remercier le Service culturel de l’Ambassade de France en Irlande pour son soutien aimable.

With thanks to the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Ireland for its support.