Species of Spaces and Other Pieces,9780140189865

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

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ISBN13: 9780140189865
ISBN10: 0140189866
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-08-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Group USA
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Summary

This generous selection of Georges Perec's nonfiction, the first to appear in English, features ingenious contemplations on the ways in which we occupy urban and domestic space, engrossing accounts of his experiences with psychoanalysis, depictions of the Paris of his childhood, thought-provoking examinations of the "infra ordinary" -- the commonplace items of our lives eluding our attention -- and a short story executed with a Borges-like finesse. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces puts us in the presence of a virtuoso writer, whom Italo Calvino called "one of the most significant literary personalities in the world".

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Species of Spaces / Especes d'espaces
1(92)
Foreword
5(4)
The Page
9(7)
The Bed
16(4)
The Bedroom
20(6)
The Apartment
26(14)
The Apartment Building
40(6)
The Street
46(11)
The Neighbourhood
57(3)
The Town
60(8)
The Country
68(5)
Countries
73(3)
Europe
76(1)
Old Continent
76(1)
New Continent
76(1)
The World
77(3)
Space
80(13)
from Je suis ne
93(42)
I Was Born
95(4)
The Scene of a Flight
99(10)
The Parachute Jump
109(6)
The Gnocchi of Autumn
115(5)
Some of the Things I Really Must Do Before I Die
120(3)
The Work of Memory
123(7)
Ellis Island: Description of a Project
130(5)
from Penser/Classer
135(68)
Notes on What I'm Looking For
137(3)
Notes Concerning the Objects that are on my Work-table
140(4)
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books
144(8)
Twelve Sidelong Glances
152(9)
The Scene of a Stratagem
161(9)
Reading: A Socio-physiological Outline
170(12)
On the Difficulty of Imagining an Ideal City
182(2)
`Think/Classify'
184(19)
from L'Infra-ordinaire
203(44)
Approaches to What?
205(3)
The Rue Vilin
208(10)
Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour
218(18)
The Holy of Holies
236(4)
Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Food-stuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Ninteen Hundred and Seventy-Four
240(7)
from L.G.
247(16)
Robert Antelme or the Truth of Literature
249(14)
from Cantatrix Sopranica L.
263(10)
A Scientific and Literary Friendship
265(8)
The Winter Journey / Le Voyage d'hiver
273(10)
from Voeux
283
New Year's Greetings
285

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