Georges Perec - An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (Paperback, Ithout the Lett)

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 cafe 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; a wedding (and then a funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that finally 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.

General

Imprint:	Wakefield Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	September 2010
Authors:	Georges Perec
Translators:	Marc Lowenthal
Dimensions:	178 x 103 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	55
Edition:	Ithout the Lett
ISBN-13:	978-0-9841155-2-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-9841155-2-8
Barcode:	9780984115525

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