Amazon.com: "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 routes; the pigeons moving suddenly en masse; a wedding (and then a funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that finally absorbs it all. In An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Perec compiled a melancholic, slightly eerie and oddly touching document in which existence boils down to rhythm, writing turns into time and the line between the empirical and the surreal grows surprisingly thin." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of essays on Perec and his work, e.g., Perec and Judaism, sexual aspects to his work, utopian ideas, etc. It also includes annotations and analysis of Perec's book, "Life: A User's Manual," photographic reproductions of manuscript pages, and notes for Perec's books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was carried out as a homage to Georges Perec. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This essay focuses on the material and visual traces of everyday life, in particular his engagement with photgraphs and postcards as objects of art. Joe Moran, the author, describes Phillips project "20 Sites n Years." He also points out the similarity in the compulsive interest between Phillips and George Perec. Phillips use of postcards as in "The Postcard Century" and in his semial painting "Benches" is noted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.