An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

Georges Perec with Marc Lowenthal (Translator)

55 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction essays reflective medium-paced

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, ensco...

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