Un homme qui dort, Bernard Queysanne (1974)
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“You stay in your room, not eating, not reading, hardly moving. You watch the basin. The bookcase. Your knees. Your eyes in the cracked mirror. The cup. The light switch.
You listen to street sounds. To the dripping faucet on the landing. To the noises your neighbor makes; clearing his throat, having a coughing fit, his kettle whistling. You follow on the ceiling the winding line of a thin crack. A flies pointless wanderings. The perhaps calculable progression of shadows.
You’re 25 years old, you have 29 teeth, three shirts and eight socks, 500 francs a month to live on, a few books you no longer read, a few records you no longer listen to. You don't want to remember anything else. You sit, and all you want is to wait; just wait until there’s nothing more to wait for.”
— The man who sleeps; Un homme qui dort (1974)
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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
it is a life without surprises
you sleep
you walk
you continue to live
like a laboratory rat abandoned in its maze
by some absentminded scientists
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The Man Who Sleeps (Georges Perec & Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
Very good. Now nobody make anything like this ever again
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it's all wrong
it's all right
it's all right
it's all right
it's all wrong
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Ты ничему не научился и понял лишь то, что одиночество и безразличие ничему не учат.
«Человек, который спит»
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tu cichosza tam cicho
"I have a tiny little secret hope that, after a decent period of silence and prose, I will find myself in some almost impossible life situation and will respond to this with outcries of rage, rage and love, such as the world has never heard before." - John Berryman
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The story centers on an unnamed university student, referred to as "you" by the narrator, as he suddenly quits attending school, cuts off his friends, and attempts to lead a fully automation-like life devoid of human interaction.
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'As far as you know, rats don't go pinballing.'
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Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort, 1967
الرجل الذي ينام، جورج بيريك / ترجمة سلمان حرفوش
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