I Remember

'I remember hula hoops.' 'I remember Hermes handbags, with their tiny padlocks.' 'I remember that Stendhal liked spinach.' 'I remember that I dreamed of one day having all 57 varieties of Heinz.' Georges Perec's I Remember is both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring new form of memoir, now translated by his peers in wordsmithery, Philip Terry and David Bellos, with an introduction by Bellos. In 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with 'I remember', Perec records a stream of individual memories of a childhood in post-war France, while posing wider questions about memory and nostalgia. As playful and puzzling as the best of his novels, I Remember is an ode to life: the ordinary, the extraordinary and the sometimes trivial, as seen through the eyes of the irreplaceable Georges Perec.

© 2025 Pushkin Press (Ebook): 9781805334606

Translators: Philip Terry

Release date

Ebook: 1 January 2025