"In the beginning was the pun," Samuel Beckett once wrote.
This paean to the pun consists of a series of short prose pieces, each concluding with a list of t.
Wishes gathers together these ten pamphlets of homophonic wordplay that Perec sent out from 1970 until his death in 1982, printed at his own expense in limited quantities.
And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best Wishes for the New Year. "In the beginning was the pun," Samuel Beckett once wrote