A roundup of review clips for Georges Perec’s early (but only recently recovered) novel, PORTRAIT OF A MAN KNOWN AS IL CONDOTTIERE (published as PORTRAIT OF A MAN in the UK). The write-ups are generally positive, with some reservations, but one is a real rave. 📚 ✍️ 🇫🇷 🧩

Georges Perec’s debut is virtuosic in execution and is not merely a curiosity for scholars. Instead it is a definitive farewell which also leads us back through everything he wrote. It is a great flourish, a gesture of artistic panache and multiple ironies. (…) As for the story, it is wonderful and a natural screenplay in the making. (…) PORTRAIT OF A MAN is unlike anything else that Perec wrote and yet it is the most welcome sum of the many parts of his rare art.