Yesterday we mentioned Georges Perec whilst discussing the possibility of drawing everything that happened in the square during the whole of Cinema Paradiso or the lifetime of the space... Perec has written some wonderful texts in which he tries to capture absolutely everything that happens in a space over a huge expanse of time...
Check out "Life a Users Manual"
"In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of every more unlikely tales, which range from an avenging murderer to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime..."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Users-Manual-Georges-Perec/dp/0099449250
And "Species of Spaces and Other Stories" for some mind-blowing reading:
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