Ellis Island Georges Perec

(theatre, poetry, fiction) and themes such as the status of authors or the development of French as a literary language. But at all times, the verdicts pronounced are partial and provisional. I have come to appreciate the truth of the observation made by George Saintsbury in the preface to his Short History of French Literature (1882): ‘Some familiarity with the subject has convinced me that nowhere are opinions of doubtful accuracy more frequently adopted and handed on without enquiry than in the history