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  Georges Perec: An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (Paperback) By (author) Georges Perec, Translated by Marc Lowenthal

  

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  Short Description for Georges PerecOne overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the...
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  • Publisher: Wakefield Press
  • Published: 01 May 2010
  • Format: Paperback 58 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780984115525 ISBN 10: 0984115528
  • Sales rank: 49,815

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• One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe 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; a wedding (and then a funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that finally 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.