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Aucune trace, ainsi, ne resterait de cette opération qui aurait, pendant cinquante ans, entièrement mobilisé son auteur.
Georges Perec • La vie mode d'emploi (Littérature Française) (French Edition)
Gaspard Winckler est mort, mais la longue vengeance qu’il a si patiemment, si minutieusement ourdie, n’a pas encore fini de s’assouvir.
Georges Perec • La vie mode d'emploi (Littérature Française) (French Edition)
Introducing the book, Perec writes:
"Many, if not most, of these things have been described, inventoried, photographed, written about or itemized. My intention in the following pages was to describe what remains; that which we generally don’t notice, which doesn’t call attention to itself, which is of no importance: what happens when nothing happens... See more
"Many, if not most, of these things have been described, inventoried, photographed, written about or itemized. My intention in the following pages was to describe what remains; that which we generally don’t notice, which doesn’t call attention to itself, which is of no importance: what happens when nothing happens... See more
Infra-ordinary
Over three days in October 1974, the French experimental writer Georges Perec sat in cafés and a tabac in a Parisian public square called Place Saint-Sulpice and jotted down everything he saw. His observations became a book called An Attempt to Exhaust a Place in Paris , in which he sought to capture the small details that often elude us: “that whi... See more
Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams
Sa misanthropie est toujours aussi proverbiale mais trouve de moins en moins à s’exercer.
Georges Perec • La vie mode d'emploi (Littérature Française) (French Edition)
Bartlebooth, en d’autres termes, décida un jour que sa vie tout entière serait organisée autour d’un projet unique dont la nécessité arbitraire n’aurait d’autre fin qu’elle-même.
Georges Perec • La vie mode d'emploi (Littérature Française) (French Edition)
Georges Perec wrote an entire book without using the most common letter of the French alphabet: e. It went on to become one of the most celebrated experimental works in modern literature.