An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
Perec, Georges / Lowenthal, Marc
One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens, " as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by, the buses and driving-school cars caught in their...