Tentativo di esaurimento di un luogo parigino. TELP. 1

Georges Perec wrote this fascinating little (very little but beautifully designed) book regarding one location in Paris, and documenting what was happening around that section. And that is basically it! Buses come and go, taxi stand, children walk by as others. Totally uninteresting and that is what Leggi tutto

An experiment, and one ultimately doomed to failure; its failure, however, is also its greatest strength. It's essentially an extended list of details ("some cars dive into the parking lot./ an 86 [bus] passes by. A 70 passes by," etc, etc), something that would seem to make for a rather dull read.

1974 yılının ekim ayında bir adam Paris’te çoğunlukla “la mairie Kafesi” olmak üzere çeşitli kafelere oturup etrafında gördüğü herşeyi en küçük detayına kadar anlatmaya koyuluyor. Tüm bu gözlemleri bu kitapta topluyor. Nesneler, otobüsler, insanlar, hayvanlar(özellikle güvercinler), hava durumu, ışı Leggi tutto

Georges Perec liked to try things in his writing. Experiments. Could he write a novel without the letter "e," for example? Could he make a memoir consisting only of sentences that begin "I remember," he wondered? How about a 1200-word palidrome? An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris is another of Leggi tutto

Remember that scene in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray is sitting outside dictating out loud everything that is going to happen in town as it happens? Wind blows, car passes, etc. This book is just like that.