An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris /
Perec, Georges, 1936-1982.
An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris / Georges Perec ; translated by Marc Lowenthal. - ix, 55 pages ; 18 cm. - Imagining science ; 1 . - Imagining science ; 1. .
Originally published: Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien. Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 1975.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 55).
"One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the nonevent, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice where, ensconced behind first one café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving-school cars caught in their routes; the pigeons moving suddenly en masse, as if in accordance to some mysterious command; the wedding (and then funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols, and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that eventually absorbs it all. In An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Perec compiled a melancholic, slightly eerie, and oddly touching document in which existence boils down to rhythm, writing turns into time, and the line between the empirical and the surreal grows surprisingly thin."--P. [4] of cover.
9780984115525 (pbk.) 0984115528 (pbk.)
2012371749
Perec, Georges, 1936-1982.
Paris (France)--Drama.
PQ2676.E67 / T4613 2010
848/.91403
An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris / Georges Perec ; translated by Marc Lowenthal. - ix, 55 pages ; 18 cm. - Imagining science ; 1 . - Imagining science ; 1. .
Originally published: Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien. Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 1975.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 55).
"One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the nonevent, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice where, ensconced behind first one café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving-school cars caught in their routes; the pigeons moving suddenly en masse, as if in accordance to some mysterious command; the wedding (and then funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols, and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that eventually absorbs it all. In An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Perec compiled a melancholic, slightly eerie, and oddly touching document in which existence boils down to rhythm, writing turns into time, and the line between the empirical and the surreal grows surprisingly thin."--P. [4] of cover.
9780984115525 (pbk.) 0984115528 (pbk.)
2012371749
Perec, Georges, 1936-1982.
Paris (France)--Drama.
PQ2676.E67 / T4613 2010
848/.91403