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Author:

Perec, Georges, 1936-1982.

Title:

An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris / Georges Perec ; translated by Marc Lowenthal.

Publisher:

Wakefield Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

ix, 55 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Perec, Georges,--1936-1982.
Paris (France)--Drama.

Other Authors:

Lowenthal, Marc, 1969-

Other Titles:

Tentative d'©♭puisement d'un lieu parisien. English

Notes:

Originally published: Tentative d'©♭puisement d'un lieu parisien. Christian Bourgois ©œditeur, 1975. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55).

Summary:

"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 caf©♭ 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.

Series:

Imagining science ; 1

ISBN:

0984115528 (pbk.)
9780984115525 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)630506867

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)