{"product_id":"the-general-line-isbn-9781839768910","title":"The General Line","description":"\u003cb\u003ePerec's poignant essays on European cultural production, translated in English for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these writings, Georges Perec constructs a bold new critical discourse—one that remains faithful to leftist imperatives such as history, class consciousness, and revolution—while maintaining his independence from the dominant voices of the Left, whose vision had long dominated the Left’s understanding of literature and politics in postwar France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerec's essays traverse a wide cultural terrain, from the radical experimentation of Free Jazz to the speculative landscapes of Science Fiction, and beyond. Together, they reveal a restless intellect and an enduring love for the divergent cultural materials that would go on to shape Perec’s own literary work.Written against a backdrop of political unrest, domestic division, and global uncertainty, The General Line offers a window into a critical mind grappling with the contradictions of its time. Rob Halpern’s incisive introduction situates these early political essays within both the turbulent historical moment and the evolving trajectory of Perec’s extraordinary body of work.\u003cb\u003eBeyond the Terms of Engagement: Georges Perec’s Critique of the Cultural Field, circa 1960; Or, \u003ci\u003eThe General Line in Context\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction by Rob Halpern \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays from L.G.: \u003ci\u003eA 1960s Affair\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe “New Novel” and the Refusal of the Real\u003cbr\u003eFor a Realist Literature\u003cbr\u003eEngagement or Crisis of Language\u003cbr\u003eRobert Antelme, or the Truth of Literature\u003cbr\u003eThe Universe of Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003eThe Perpetual Recovery (\u003ci\u003eHiroshima mon amour\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWozzeck\u003c\/i\u003e, or The Apocalyptic Method \u003cbr\u003e*All of the above essays follow the text in \u003ci\u003eL.G. Une aventure des années soixante\u003c\/i\u003e (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1992).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFugitive Texts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDefense of Paul Klee\u003cbr\u003eThe Robbe-Grillet Mystery\u003cbr\u003eThe 6th Congress of the Communist Student Union: Discussions and Perspectives\u003cbr\u003eThe Thing (Free Jazz) \u003cbr\u003ePowers and Limits of the Contemporary French Novelist\u003cb\u003eGeorges Perec\u003c\/b\u003e (1936–82) won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 for his first novel \u003ci\u003eThings: A Story of the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial to the deeply personal. He composed acrostics, anagrams, autobiography, criticism, crosswords, descriptions of dreams, film scripts, heterograms, lipograms, memories, palindromes, plays, poetry, radio plays, recipes, riddles, stories short and long, travel notes, univocalics, and, of course, novels. \u003ci\u003eLife A User's Manual\u003c\/i\u003e, which draws on many of Perec‘s other works, appeared in 1978 after nine years in the making and was acclaimed a masterpiece to put beside Joyce‘s \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e. It won the Prix Médicis and established Perec‘s international reputation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Halpern\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University. He coordinates The Writers’ Bloc, a poetry writing workshop inside Huron Valley Women’s Prison. His books include \u003ci\u003eMusic for Porn \u003c\/i\u003e(Nightboat 2012) and \u003ci\u003eHieroglyphs of the Inverted World\u003c\/i\u003e (Kenning Editions 2021).\"","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532201734373,"sku":"NP9781839768910","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-general-line-isbn-9781839768910","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}