TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perec,Georges
AU  - Lowenthal,Marc
TI  - An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris
T2  - Imagining science
SN  - 9780984115525
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Wakefield Press
KW  - Perec, Georges,
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Drama
N1  - Originally published: Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien. Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 1975
N2  - "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, 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 and driving-school cars caught in their routes; the pigeons moving suddenly en masse, as if in accordance to some mysterious command; 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."--P. [4] of cover
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