An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Paris

by Georges Perec ; translated by Marc Lowenthal

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Author(s)

Georges Perec

Publication, year

Cambridge, MA. : Wakefield Press, 2010

Scope

55 Pages, 18 cm.

ISBN

9780984115525

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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, ensconced behind first one café window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision.

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Location

Cabinet 28 - 6: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte

Extra themes

Walk / stroll / explore / hang out