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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
Georges Perec
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"Take it with you to any cafe in any city, and Perec will be both your drinking partner and your tour guide, drawing your attention to each little detail coming and going.” –Ian Klaus, CityLab 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 café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses ... Read more
"Take it with you to any cafe in any city, and Perec will be both your drinking partner and your tour guide, drawing your attention to each little detail coming and going.” –Ian Klaus, CityLab 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 café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wakefield Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9780984115525
SKU
V9780984115525
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Reviews for An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
Take it with you to any cafe in any city, and Perec will be both your drinking partner and your tour guide, drawing your attention to each little detail coming and going.
Ian Klaus
CityLab
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris is about the kinds of ordinary occurrences that make up the experience of sitting ... Read more
Ian Klaus
CityLab
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris is about the kinds of ordinary occurrences that make up the experience of sitting ... Read more