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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in London

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in London

By Nathan Penlington, Sarah Lester

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About the book

One weekend in the middle of October 1974 the French writer Georges Perec set himself a challenge - to describe everything that happened in place Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Not a record of the buildings or history of the square, but a record of 'that which is not noticed, that which has no importance: what happens when nothing happens'. 40 years later writers Nathan Penlington and Sarah Lester replicated Perec's experiment - with a few important similarities and a few significant changes, most notabl...Show more

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ISBN

9781909136595

Publisher

Burning Eye Books

Published year

2015

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Edition

1

Original title

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in London

Format

Paperback

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