W Or the Memory of Childhood PDF
By:Georges Perec
Published on 2003 by David R. Godine Publisher
Guaranteed to send shock waves through the literary community, Perec's W tells two parallel stories. The first is autobiographical, describing the author's wartime boyhood. The second tale, denser, more disturbing, more horrifying, is the allegorical story of W, a mythical island off Tierra del Fuego, governed by the thrall of the Olympic |ideal,| where losers are tortured and winners held in temporary idolatry. As the reader soon discovers, W is a place where |it is more important to be lucky than to be deserving,| and |you have to fight to live ... Ãwith¨ no recourse, no mercy, no salvation, not even any hope that time will sort things out.| Here, sport is glorified and victors honored, but athletes are vilified, losers executed, stealing encouraged, rape common, and violence a fact of life. Perec's interpretive vision of the Holocaust forces us to ask the question central to our time: How did this happen before our eyes? How did we look at those |shells of skin and bone, ashen faced, with their backs permanently bent, their eyes full of panic and their suppurating sores?| How did all of this happen, not on W, but before millions of spectators, some horrified, some cheering, some in-different, but all present at the games watching the events of that grisly arena?
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