W oder die Kindheitserinnerung

With the reissue of this long-out-of-print work, one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the 20th century is finally accessible again to the German-speaking readership. In a masterful and disturbing narrative, Perec's childhood fantasies of the utopian island W, where all of life is dedicated to sports, merge with memories of the Holocaust and the early loss of his parents into a nightmarish vision that leaves no one untouched. Two intersecting narratives intertwine and ultimately transition into a magnificent crescendo, shaping the structure of the book: the imaginary world that Perec created as a 13-year-old boy and an autobiographical account that attempts to outline a chronological family history. The struggle for personal, intimate memories in the fog of an unbearable past.