Fictional Gaze of a Painterly Eye

This book aims to answer what French author Georges Perec himself asks in his seminal series of short essays, ‘The Infra-Ordinary’: “How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs every day: the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual?” Following in the footsteps of Perec, questions concerning our quotidian condition in relation to the presence of the present, time and their respective flowing will be traced in this book through one of George Perec’s other novels, Life – A User’s Manual, in which a narration of a Paris apartment building and its residents is portrayed. Accordingly, the subtitle of this book is ‘the Poiesis of the Presence of the Present, Time and the Quotidian’, and that as viewed through the fictional gaze of a painterly eye of a protagonist that George Perec brought to life.

Aceasta carte isi propune sa raspunda la ceea ce autorul francez Georges Perec insusi intreaba in seria sa esentiala de eseuri scurte, „Infraordinarul”: „Cum ar trebui sa tinem cont, sa intrebam, sa descriem ce se intampla in fiecare zi si sa se repete in fiecare zi: banalul, cotidianul, evidentul, comunul, obisnuitul, infra-obisnuitul, zgomotul de fond, obisnuitul? ” Urmand urmele lui Perec, intrebarile referitoare la starea noastra cotidiana in legatura cu prezenta prezentului, a timpului si a curgerii lor respective vor fi urmarite in aceasta carte printr-unul dintre celelalte romane ale lui George Perec, Viata - Manualul utilizatorului, in care o naratiune a unui bloc de apartamente din Paris si a locuitorilor sai este descrisa.