An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris / Georges Perec ; translated by Marc Lowenthal.
Language: English Original language: French Series: Imagining science ; 1.Publisher: Cambridge, MA : New York : Wakefield Press ; D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], [2010]Description: ix, 55 pages ; 18 cmISBN: 9780984115525 (pbk.); 0984115528 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien. English Subject(s): Perec, Georges, 1936-1982 | Paris (France) -- DramaDDC classification: 848/.91403 LOC classification: PQ2676.E67 | T4613 2010Summary: "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.Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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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.