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Loading... Georges Perec: An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (edition 2010)by Georges Perec, Marc Lowenthal (Translator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Since returning from a month-long trip, I've been trying to think about ways to keep traveling while at home. It comes down to observing. I think I'll have to put aside some time to make my own attempt at exhausting a place in Portland. ( ) The light of day A cool little book. Perec's brief field-of-vision experiment will appeal mostly to writers. The way it strips back writing to the bare minimum of factual observation and yet still a work of literature is created. It's like hitting a reset button on the over-thinking imagination. Shows how something so simple and basic as note-taking can produce a meaningful narrative of sorts. Its purity of intent is solidly interesting. no reviews | add a review
"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. No library descriptions found. |
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