Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on
the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his hands.
The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition.
After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to
the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic writer, Portrait of a Man
is both Perec's first novel and his last. Frustrated in his efforts
to find a publisher, he put it aside, telling a friend: "I'll go
back to it in ten years when it'll turn into a masterpiece, or else
I'll wait in my grave until one of my faithful exegetes comes
across it in an old trunk." An apt coda to one of the brightest
literary careers of the twentieth century, it is - in the words of
David Bellos, the "faithful exegete" who brought it to light -
"connected by a hundred threads to every part of the literary
universe that Perec went on to create - but it's not like anything
else that he wrote".
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