The General Line: Georges Perec's Early Essays on Art and Politics

Perec's poignant essays on European cultural production, translated in English for the first time.

In these writings, Georges Perec constructs a bold new critical discourse—one that remains faithful to leftist imperatives such as history, class consciousness, and revolution—while maintaining his independence from the dominant voices of the Left, whose vision had long dominated the Left’s understanding of literature and politics in postwar France.

Perec's essays traverse a wide cultural terrai...