Die Winterreise

Like all the texts Georges Perec wrote during his short but intensely creative period, this novella with the romantically titled "The Winter Journey" has also become a classic of its genre. It was published in 1979, the year Perec presented his major work "Life: A User's Manual." Since then, there have been no fewer than a good dozen variations on this remarkable narrative. What was "Le Voyage d'hiver" by Perec has been revisited over the years—especially after his death in 1982—under titles such as "Le Voyage d'Hitler" (Hervé Le Tellier), "die Hinterreise" (Jacques Jouet), "Le Voyage du ver" (The Journey of the Worm, François Caradec), and so on. The title is romantic, and the content is highly so. It tells the story of a young literary scholar on the eve of World War II in a friend's library.