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Life's Instruction Manual (1978) is not only Georges Perec's crowning achievement, but also one of the most fascinating and, with its deliberate limitations, most complex books in 20th-century world literature - for its breadth, its organization, its wealth of information and references, its humorous inventiveness, the irony that pervades it, and its refined artistic form, it has been described as "baroque realism bordering on burlesque." It is a universe condensed into the dimension of a house, stripped of its front facade, in whose bowels the stories of a colourful panopticon of inhabitants unfold. The reader moves from one room to another, from one era to another, from one style, story, allusion to another. A Life of Instruction is a thousand novels in one, with a thousand characters whose bizarre, tragicomic, ridiculous fates weave through the space like the threads of an extraordinary author's brain.

Czech edition