An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Paris by Georges Perec
A brief, experimental account of a single Paris square in which an observer systematically records the ordinary details of urban life — people, objects, movements, sounds and patterns — attempting to catalogue everything that occurs and everything conspicuously absent. Through dry lists, repetitions and subtle shifts in focus, the text turns mundane, fleeting moments into a meditation on perception, memory and the impossibility of truly exhausting any place.
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- Published
- 1975
- Nationality
- French
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- Original Language
- French
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- Attempt to Exhaust a Place in Paris
- Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien
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