Dancing with Georges Perec: Embodying Oulipo by Leslie Satin

Dancing with Georges Perec is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship of dance to the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer, Georges Perec (1936-1982). The book addresses art-making parallels of dance, writing (especially Oulipo, the Workshop for Potential Literature), and other fields, as well as their sociocultural and personal contexts. These include Perec's childhood loss of his parents in the Holocaust and the repercussions of that loss in the significance of the body, everydayness, space, and attention permeating his work. Dancing, framed as a performative autobiographical enactment of the author's relationship to Perec, offers Satin's dancerly experience of reading his work.