u003cpu003e'Perec is serious fun' The Guardianu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eBoth an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available for the first time in English, with an introduction by David Bellos.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eIn 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with 'I remember', Perec records a stream of individual memories of a childhood in post-war France, while posing wider questions about memory and nostalgia.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eAs playful and puzzling as the best of his novels, I Remember is an ode to life: the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the sometimes trivial, as seen through the eyes of the irreplaceable Georges Perec.u003c/pu003e
