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02921aam a2200481 i 4500 001 B6F80160969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210406010037 008 201001t20212021nyua 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020042650 020 $a 0811229548 020 $a 9780811229548 035 $a (OCoLC)1200039172 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d TOH $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JV6450 $b .P4713 2021 082 00 $a 304.8/73 $2 23 100 1 $a Perec, Georges, $d 1936-1982 $e author. 240 10 $a ReÌcits d'Ellis Island. $l English 245 10 $a Ellis Island / $c Georges Perec ; translated from the French by Harry Mathews ; and with an afterword by MoÌnica de la Torre. 250 $a First New Directions edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b New Directions Publishing Corporation, $c 2021. 300 $a 65 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 18 cm. 490 1 $a New Directions paperbook ; $v 1491 520 $a "Georges Perec, employing prose meditations, lists, and inventories (of countries of origin, of what the immigrants carried), conjures up in Ellis Island the sixteen million people who, between 1890 and 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet; his mother perished in Auschwitz) is wide-awake to the elements of chance in immigration and survival: "To me Ellis Island is the ultimate place of exile. That is, the place where place is absent, the non-place, the nowhere... Ellis Island belongs to all those whom intolerance and poverty have driven and still drive from the land where they grew up." Ellis Island is a slender Perec masterwork, unique among his many singular works. The acclaimed poet and scholar MoÌnica de la Torre contributes an afterword that keeps Perec's writing front and center while situating Ellis Island in the context of current fierce battles over immigration"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a Translated from French. 610 20 $a Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) $x History. 610 27 $a Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00631491 651 0 $a United States $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Biography. $x Biography. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Emigration and immigration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00908690 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Mathews, Harry, $d 1930-2017, $e translator. 700 1 $a Torre, MoÌnica de la, $e writer of afterword. 830 0 $a New Directions paperbook ; $v 1491. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013442.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B6F80160969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search