Space and memory in Georges Perec's Lieux

Space is one of the most interesting motifs in the work of Georges Perec and a theme that the author has dealt with numerous times in his various novels and essays. For Perec, space is inextricably linked to the place of remembrance which keeps the memories of the past. The spaces associated with the mother and father of the author, of whom he had almost no memories left, have become for him the only places to look for the traces of the past, to find common bonds and to fill the void left by the war. What characterizes Perec's writing is the use of different strategies aimed at saving space from oblivion through the meticulous recording of its progressive changes and the establishment of their various classifications. The objective of the article is to study how the spaces in Georges Perec's work can be linked to the remembrance or the creation of memories and also how they represent the absence, the inability of the memory and the void that is impossible to fil.

Keywords: Perec; space; memory; loss; OuLiPo