Used book – Which Little Chromed-Handlebar Bicycle at the Back of the Yard?, Georges Perec

From time to time, it is good for a poet, unafraid of the rarefied air of the summits, to dare to rise above the common, and in an epic breath, exalt our present day. For make no mistake: those courageous young people who, at the height of the war, tried everything (in vain, alas!) to spare a young soldier from the Algerian hell who was crying for mercy, are the true successors of Ajax and Achilles, of Hercules and Telemachus, of the Argonauts, of the Three Musketeers and even of Captain Nemo, of Saint-Exupéry, of Teilhard de Chardin... As for readers for whom the virtues of the epic leave them unmoved, they will find in this small book enough digressions and asides to glean their pleasure, and in particular a recipe for rice with olives that should satisfy even the most demanding.