Re: [microsound] ambient books/Perec

[dbuchwald <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian,

that reminds me of a book by Inger Christensen (is she Danish? Swedish?) called
"Alfabet'.  I think it was written using the Fibonacci numbers.  It is in a
similar vein as Silliman's "Tjanting" which Ray Craig mentioned in his post.

Dagmar

Brian Lavelle wrote:

> | I have just finished reading 'Life, A Users Manual' by Georges Perec which
> | would seem to me to squeeze somewhat into an ambient category. The whole
> book
> | reads like a slow pan through every room in a french apartment block,
> | focusing in upon the microdetails of all the objects in each space. Any
> | characters in the book are frozen in a kind of still life and the story is
> | told through the relationships between the occupants of the rooms and the
> | contents therein.
>
> A fantastic book, Rob and constructed along very mathematical/ordered lines,
> as is much of Perec's work - the "knight's tour" of the 10x10 grid that is
> the apartment block is so subtle, you'd hardly know it exists.  Ties us back
> into the discussion about the OuLiPo, Queneau and the use of mathematics in
> art/literature.
>
> Brian
> http://i-ii.org
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