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02436aam a2200385 a 4500 001 5BEADDB66A8C11E689525693DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160825010506 008 100524s2010 mau b 000 1 eng c 020 $a 0984115528 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780984115525 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)630506867 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d ORX $d BWX $d BUF $d CDX $d TJC $d UBY $d FDA $d GUA $d SINLB $d OBE $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- 050 4 $a PQ2676 E67 T4613 2010 100 1 $a Perec, Georges, $d 1936-1982. 240 10 $a Tentative d'©âpuisement d'un lieu parisien. $l English 245 13 $a An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris / $c Georges Perec ; translated by Marc Lowenthal. 260 $a Cambridge, Mass. : $b Wakefield Press ; $c c2010. 300 $a ix, 55 p. ; $c 18 cm. 490 1 $a Imagining science ; $v 1 500 $a Originally published: Tentative d'©âpuisement d'un lieu parisien. Christian Bourgois ©Âditeur, 1975. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 55). 520 $a "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©â 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. 600 10 $a Perec, Georges, $d 1936-1982. 651 0 $a Paris (France) $v Drama. 700 1 $a Lowenthal, Marc, $d 1969- 830 0 $a Imagining science ; $v 1. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171229024641.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825082255.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5BEADDB66A8C11E689525693DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search