LN201 Café Littéraire: "Life: A User’s Manual," by Georges Perec

Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual is an extraordinary, puzzle-like novel set primarily within a Paris apartment building, whose rooms the narrative explores one by one. Each space opens onto the life of a resident, past or present, producing an immense collection of interconnected stories—comic, tragic, eccentric, and sometimes deliberately ordinary. Through its intricate structure and enormous cast of characters, the novel transforms a single building into a miniature world, reflecting on chance, obsession, memory, loss, and the curious patterns that connect individual lives.

The book group meets at the organizer's apartment. The directions, door code, telephone number, etc., are sent in the 7-day and 1-day reminder emails, following registration.

Two spaces are reserved for new WICE members. If no new WICE members have registered by five days prior to the meeting, those two spaces will become available to the general WICE membership.

Registration for the November meeting opens on Saturday, 17 October.