Name: an attempt at exhausting a place in paris
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Author: Georges Perec
ISBN: 9780984115525

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an attempt at exhausting a place in paris

Type

Physical Book

Author

Georges Perec

Translated by

Marc Lowenthal

Publisher

Wakefield Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.5 x 11.2 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.09 kg.

ISBN

0984115528

ISBN13

9780984115525

Synopsis "an attempt at exhausting a place in paris"

"Take it with you to any cafe in any city, and Perec will be both your drinking partner and your tour guide, drawing your attention to each little detail coming and going." -Ian Klaus, CityLabOne 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 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; 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.

Georges Perec

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Georges Perec nació en París en 1936 y falleció en Ivry-sur-Seine en 1982. Sociólogo de formación, colaborador de numerosas revistas literarias, obtuvo el premio Renaudot con su primera novela, Las cosas. Personalidad ecléctica, fue ensayista, documentalista en neurofisiología, dramaturgo, guionista de cine, poeta, experto en acrósticos, crucigramas, lipogramas y anagramas, traductor y, last but not least, miembro fundamental del OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), fundado por Raymond Queneau y el matemático François Le Lionnais. Su obra monumental La vida instrucciones de uso ganó el premio Médicis en 1978. En Anagrama se han publicado Las cosas, El secuestro, La vida instrucciones de uso, El gabinete de un aficionado, Nací, El Condotiero y Lugares.

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