AN ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING A PLACE IN PARIS by georges perec

i’ve a review of this perec gem in Jacket2. an issue devoted to the stroll. edited by corey frost and louis bury.

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris was written by Georges Perec during a gray Parisian weekend in October 1974. The stated intention was to “describe … that which is generally not taken note of, that which is not noticed, that which has no importance: what happens when nothing happens other than the weather, people, cars, and clouds.” A nonambulatory flâneur, Perec sets himself up at a cafe in Place Saint-Sulpice to do as his directive epigraph of Life: A User’s Manualorders us to do also: “Look with all your eyes, look.”

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