cam a22 4 4500 530040093 CHVBK 20200117031815.0 130206s2012 enk b||| 000 0 eng| 2012551650 978-1-907468-15-5 pbk. 1-907468-15-3 (OCoLC)841199057 (IDSBB)006840892 (OCoLC)841199057 (OCoLC)827083137 (OCoLC)827242977 DLC ger DLC OCLCO IUL OCLCQ YDXCP YNK OCLCF CDX SzZUIDS BS/BE B400 rda eng fre PQ2676.E67 A6 2012 709.04075 15 300 15 B sdnb Morris Simon 1968- (DE-588)129771619 Verfasser aut Works Selections Pigeon reader [texts selected by] Simon Morris ; with photographs by Susan Julia Dobson & Peter Heaton = Species of spaces and other pieces / Georges Perec ; edited and translated by John Sturrock Acklam Information As Material 2012 xvii, 292 pages 20 cm Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger IAM twenty-first century classics Includes bibliographical references Inspired by Georges Perec's musings on reading, which he likens to "a pigeon pecking at the ground in search of breadcrumbs”, Simon Morris' latest book sets exactly those feral avians to work on the very surface of Perec's celebrated text "Reading: A Socio-physiological Outline”. In the process he puts pressure on all of the terms in Perec's title: what does it mean to engage a text physically — looking at print, flipping pages, processing language, vocalizing, responding — without any of the social practices or semantics we usually associate with "reading.” Or, to put this as Wittgenstein might: what activities still embody a grammar of reading even in the absence of what would seem to be its defining features. Moreover, Pigeon Reader intervenes as a precise facsimile edition of Perec's book, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (trans. John Sturrock, London: Penguin books, 1997), with only the single chapter on reading modified. Pigeon Reader is thus also a kind of inversion, as well as an intervention: where British copyright laws permit copying 5% of a book, Morris has copied 95%. In reprinting the book to this extent, Morris' conviction has gone beyond the recent tradition of the artists' insert. Within the paratext he has corrupted the corporate branding, with penguins morphing into pigeons and advertisements re-imagined. One could be forgiven for asking why someone would remake an entire book just to make a conceptual play in a single chapter. Morris would likely respond by further appropriating and recontextualizing Perec's closing words from "Reading”: "These are questions that I ask, and I think there is some point in a writer asking them.” Perec, Georges 1936-1982 Translations into English Perec, Georges 1936-1982 fast Perec Georges 1936-1982 (DE-588)118903004 Verfasser aut Sturrock John 1930-2017 (DE-588)1043719784 Herausgeber Übersetzer edt trl Stoppsignal FRED nebis DS IDSBB 100 1- Morris Simon 1968- (DE-588)129771619 Verfasser aut IDSBB 240 1- Works Selections IDSBB 490 0- IAM twenty-first century classics IDSBB 700 1- Perec Georges 1936-1982 (DE-588)118903004 Verfasser aut IDSBB 700 1- Sturrock John 1930-2017 (DE-588)1043719784 Herausgeber Übersetzer edt trl BK020700 XK020700 XK020700 IDSBB B400 B400 400H5 BeM RFA 88850 NELB4001810