A review by sarah_dietrich
W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec

2.0

I see what Perec is doing here, but I'm not convinced. The parallel threads of Perec's childhood memories and his imagined dystopian Olympiad society highlight the evils of the war machine, and it's all just too on the nose for me. You can see where it's going right from the start and then it gets to the point of
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and I was rolling my eyes. Perec says some interesting things about memory, but ultimately this was a letdown for me.