An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris - Georges Perec Claudia McGehee The translation must have been

The translation must have been a daunting challenge but Catherine Schelbert’s wonderfully idiosyncratic rendering perfectly captures the period

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An encyclopedia of evil entities and folkloric fiends from across the country

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While the early works of this period challenged art’s traditional boundaries

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris - Georges Perec Claudia McGehee The translation must have beenAn Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec ISBN 9780984115525 small paperback with flaps from Wakefield Press *** One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the infraordinary: the humdrum, the nonevent, the everydaywhat happens, as he put it, when nothing happens. His choice of locale was Place Saint Sulpice where, ensconced behind first one caf window, then another, he spent three days recording everything