An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
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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 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 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.
Translated by Marc Lowenthal
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115525
11 x 17.5cm, 72 Pages, Paperback.
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