Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Ideas: Claude Burgelin, professor emeritus of Contemporary Literature at the University Lyon-2 Louis-Lumière. Author of a biography of Georges Perec, published by Gallimard.
He died young, at forty-five, but he left behind a considerable, labyrinthine body of work, built like so many writing experiences. A life destroyed, barely begun – father killed in 1940, mother disappeared in Auschwitz. No childhood memories. From this amnesia, Georges Perec will be the source of his literary creation: he never ceases to seek to reweave links and landmarks through letters, games, narrative invention. His work traces oblique paths for reading the world and its history. The life of this man who rebuilt himself thanks to his passion for words can be seen essentially in the shadow and light of his books.