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AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.

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from Nihilism in Art

The character Bartlebooth in George Perec's Life: A User's Manual devotes his life to an elaborate act of artistic meaninglessness, which mirrors the book itself, and ultimately fails even at nothingness.

Aug 2018: Reading some of Calvino's "six memos" which are excellent (there are actually only five because he died early – and one, "Multiplicity", talks about Perec's Life: A User's Manual which has a similar property (a scheme of 100 rooms, one chapter per room, but with one missing)). Andrei Codrescu On Consistency: Italo Calvino's Sixth Memo | Los Angeles Review of Books imagines the missing memo.

from Pretentious Book Club

Life: A User's Manual

Life: A User's Manual

30 Oct 2021 - 20 Jul 2024

A novel by Georges Perec book Oulipo

THE BARTLEBOOTH FOLLIES - The New York Times

Towards a book as big as the world: LIFE A USER’S MANUAL (Year of the Month) | The-Solute

This book definitely has math nerd appeal. The plot, such as it is, involves an elaborate creation of a set of jigsaw puzzles, and the structure contains numerous patterns and puzzles.