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emilybh's review against another edition
5.0
This collection is like a textual version of 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'; it's a mix of short essays, stories, phrases, thoughts & experiments. It's accessible, sometimes funny, misleadingly factual then candid. Perec is a wonderful writer and his relationship with words, and their appearance on the page, is unique. His way of 'reading' urban spaces - their streets, patterns, inhabitants - is also unique & valuable. I'll definitely try to read his other works soon.
jackflagg's review against another edition
4.0
The master of the mundane, the infraordinary, la quotidienne. Before Seinfeld's show about nothing, there was Perec's work about nothing, the common things we pass by everyday and don't pay attention to, the spaces and "species" we're surrounded by and don't think about. It's a joyous journey to read Perec precisely because he opens your eyes to the trees you pass and treat as being only a forest.
juljuj's review against another edition
4.0
Construction du livre super intéressante, se lit vite ( passe bien dans le train)
escalofriada's review against another edition
5.0
Es un libro original que te invita a ver con nuevos ojos algo tan común como el espacio en el que habitas.
jessegunsing's review against another edition
5.0
Georges Perec die opschept over hoe goed hij is in flipperkasten -hartje-
'Ik zou willen dat er plekken bestonden die blijvend waren, onbeweeglijk, onaantastbaar, onaangeraakt en haast niet aan te raken, onveranderlijk, en geworteld; plekken die konden dienen als referentie, als vertrekpunt, als bron(...)'
'Ik zou willen dat er plekken bestonden die blijvend waren, onbeweeglijk, onaantastbaar, onaangeraakt en haast niet aan te raken, onveranderlijk, en geworteld; plekken die konden dienen als referentie, als vertrekpunt, als bron(...)'
alexlanz's review against another edition
A lot to think about. Seems like every piece is a personal variation on the same fixation: the absent center in structuralism.