Abstract
This chapter considers a broad selection of Perec's writings with particular focus on 'Les Lieux d'une ruse', Espèces d'espaces, Je me souviens, W, ou le souvenir d'enfance, and La Vie mode d'emploi. It brings Perec's work into dialogue with psychoanalyst D.W Winnicott's understanding of creative play as the foundation of a person's sense of self, to argue that, in Perec's writing, play is intimately linked to survival. In particular, it is through play that Perec manages the tension present in his work between a desire to withdraw from the world, and a desire to find one's place within it and belong. Ultimately, the chapter argues, it is through play that Perec creates a substitute, however inadequate, for the structures of family and community from which he was severed.
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