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ABSTRACTS Priya Wadhera (Columbia University) A prescient reflection: protagonist as narrator in the oeuvre of Georges Perec Perec's early unpublished work Le Condottiere (1958-60) features many of the elements that will play a central role twenty years later in Un Cabinet d'Amateur. Histoire d'un Tableau (1979), the last of his works to be published in his lifetime. While the first text concerns "un faussaire de génie qui vise à la création authentique d'un chef d'œuvre du passé" in vain, the latter presents the culmination of these efforts on the part of the protagonist. As he reveals this, the narrator himself admits that the entire story was a fabrication of its own, based not on fact but on fiction. I thus propose to examine the ways in which the early figuring of artist foreshadows the very gesture undertaken by Perec's narrator decades later with a view to unveiling this important author's own portrait as artist. This study will shed light, too, on shifts in the literary landscape of France in the space of twenty years.

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