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AN ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING A PLACE IN

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: DAP/Art Book
  • 12.2 x 17.3 x 0.7 cm

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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 caf 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.
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  • Title

    AN ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING A PLACE IN

  • Author

    Georges Perec

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    DAP/Art Book

  • Published

    September 2010

  • Weight

    91g

  • Dimensions

    12.2 x 17.3 x 0.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780984115525

  • ISBN-10

    0984115528

  • Eden Code

    5411809

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