Olympic Oulipian On this day in 1982, the experimental French writer Georges Perec died, at the age of forty-five. Like Italo Calvino, Perec belonged to the "Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle" group, founded in 1960; translated, this would be "Workshop of Potential Literature," but the group is known internationally as OuLiPo, if only because of their enthusiasm for the lipogram.
Je me souviens de Georges Perec This French-language website offers several essays on Perec, an extensive index of critical works about the author, and links to online resources in French, English, German, and Italian.
