The other paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 176 in Publisher: Vintage Classics Written in alternating chapters. W or the Memory of Childhood. Tells down - to - earth stories about two parallel tales in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck. the other a man despatched to search for him. who discovers W. an island state based on the rules of sport. As the two tales move in and out of focus. the disturbing truth about the island of W reveals itself. Perec combines fiction and autobiography in unprecedented ways. allowing no easy escape from these stories. or from history.
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