An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris
Georges Perec ; translated by Marc Lowenthal
Bok Engelsk 2010
| Originaltittel | [ Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien. .] English
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| Utgitt | Cambridge, Mass. : New York : : Wakefield Press ; : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], , c2010
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| Omfang | ix, 55 p. ;
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| Opplysninger | Originally published: Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien. Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 1975.. - "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.
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| Emner | Perec, Georges, , 1936-1982.
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| ISBN | 0-9841155-2-8. - 978-0-9841155-2-5
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