I Remember eBook

''I remember hula hoops.''''I remember Hermes handbags, with their tiny padlocks.''''I remember that Stendhal liked spinach.''''I remember that I dreamed of one day having all 57 varieties of Heinz.''Both 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.In 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. As 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.