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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 Perec's experiments. He spent three days at Place Saint-Sulpice recording everything he saw---buses, people, pigeons, and more---and the result is this little fifty-ish page book. Perec was in search ...more
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris is another of Perec's experiments. He spent three days at Place Saint-Sulpice recording everything he saw---buses, people, pigeons, and more---and the result is this little fifty-ish page book. Perec was in search ...more
Feb 19, 2025
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