W or The Memory of Childhood Data mining University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

Part 2: A Meal

in the land of Wishaluzia

for the tactics of nationalist civil war

The Northern Route

W or The Memory of Childhood Data mining University of EdinburghA disturbing, ground breaking book about Perec's wartime childhood, and about where truth and fiction overlap Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler one an eight year old deaf mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to search for him, who discovers W, an island