An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, (Paperback)

from cameling

Pick a comfortable cafe or park bench, take out a notebook and sit for a few hours. How much activity would you be able to observe in the time you're sitting there? How much do we miss because we aren't mindful of the activity that takes place throughout the day? From fluttering pigeons, to how o...

from vpfluke

Although, this small book does not compare with "Life A Users Manual", Perec's masterpiece, I rather enjoyed this book of observations in the St. Sulpice District of Paris. In tracking all the small things in the area where he hangs out, I am reminded of myself. I have kept track of buses myself,...

from BlackGlove

The light of dayA cool little book. Perec's brief field-of-vision experiment will appeal mostly to writers. The way it strips back writing to the bare minimum of factual observation and yet still a work of literature is created. It's like hitting a reset button on the over-thinking imagination. S...

from JimElkins

This is an excellent illustration of a problem with purely descriptive, unvoiced, "unoriginal" writing: the more it attempts to be "unoriginal" in Marjorie Perloff's sense, the more meaning is infused. Perec's project is to describe the "infraordinary": everything about this square in Paris that ...

from JimElkins

This is an excellent illustration of a problem with purely descriptive, unvoiced, "unoriginal" writing: the more it attempts to be "unoriginal" in Marjorie Perloff's sense, the more meaning is infused. Perec's project is to describe the "infraordinary": everything about this square in Paris that ...