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Georges Perec
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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris |
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English |
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Paperback |
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72 |
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2010-09-30 |
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0984115528 |
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Wakefield Press |
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0.26 pounds |
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4.33 x 6.93 x 0.31 inches |
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Reprint |
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1 Caroline LB (USA: MA) |
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1 RidgewayGirl (USA: SC) |
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Product Description
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.
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