In 1979, Georges Perec (1936-1982) wrote a brief entertainment called -The Winter Journey- for a publisher's catalogue. It quickly became his most frequently reprinted short story. Set on the eve of World War II, it recounts the discovery of a great literary masterpiece that conceals a scandalous secret at the heart of the whole of modern French literature. Every aspect of literary history will have to be rewritten. However, the War intervenes, and the work is lost forever. The present volume, a kind of -hyper-novel, - includes and then extends this brief parable, which turns out to be so...