Summary
Perec explains why he never uses the same formula and system when it comes to writing his novels. He relates that the books he has written belong to four different fields, four different modes of questioning, which in the final analysis, address the same problem, but approach it from different perspectives, each of which corresponds, for him, a specific kind of literary work.
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Statement of Intent
December 1978
When I attempt to state what I have tried to do as a writer since I began, what occurs to me first of all is that I have never written two books of the same kind, or ever wanted to reuse a formula...See the full content of this document
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