2003
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Christelle Reggiani, « Perec : une poétique de la photographie », Littérature (documents), ID : 10.3406/litt.2003.1790
Perec: A Poetics of Photography Photography and photographs are extremely and willfully present in Perec's works — and treated with suspicion and disdain. Photographs, whether taken by Perec, commented or written "around" by him, or either real or fictitious points of departure for his narratives, dovetail with his writing proper, based on uncertainty and incompleteness, because of their fundamentally truncated nature.