Pierre Menard animated
Saturday, February 13 his first writing workshop as part of the writer's residence supported by the Ile-de- France proposes that for ten months at the bookstore. He made work in good humor and creative energy, a dozen enthusiastic participants
Leadership Centre Château-Landon starting from the work of Thomas Clerc
: Paris, Musée du XXI Century: The Tenth Borough , Thomas Clerc, Gallimard, Collection "The Crossbow", 2007. 
Braiding in a hybrid form of writing, the study objective, documented, and personal considerations or autobiographical (the latter not being included in the margins of the study but in his actual conduct ), to describe a neighborhood, city by adopting the arbitrary order of the alphabet but undeniable. It must indeed renew approaches and modes of perception of the city by offering to stroll and wander to a reading, more than discontinuous linear.
Presentation of Text: In this book, Thomas Clerc decided to walk to and fro the tenth arrondissement of Paris through its 155 streets, squares, docks, squares, cities, streets, gardens, boulevards, blind alleys and passages, by adopting the arbitrary order of the alphabet but undeniable, from the street to the City of Abbeville Vauxhall. He offered to take a stroll and a reading vagabond, more than discontinuous linear city. A portrait of the neighborhood between the confession, dreams, ethnographic, political, economic and, of course, history also includes a reflection on the "museumification" of the capital.
Preview: "I leave the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin (1885 x 20 m), my center of gravity. On the front of I, appears in metal letters HEALTH CENTER. A traveling back and he is transformed into a "merchant of clothing for children." Like neon on the walls of a gallery, the words glow in vacuum, cut off from their reference. Contact: I accosted a customer leaves the store. He did not notice anything special. Trap: if a medical laboratory files for bankruptcy, its results are they still reliable? The negative became vice versa. Setup: I observe under its protection the elegant Porte Saint-Martin, which itself is not an illusion, but an arch with 3 branches on base. Monument minor, she is troubled by no effects of wear. At night, illuminated by spotlights, it reaches even the beauty of the second part. The relief set out the historical figures in helpless spectators, facing the constant mobility of pedestrians cars and anonymous heroes of Louis XIV nobody's as if they had been cheated by the glory. Theory: boredom generated by the monuments is their universal character, which anchors them in a definitive and freezes for eternity in the status of "big thing". Although there are annoying people like monuments, the human face seems always more meaningful and affect the "old stones". The monuments are extinct volcanoes. This boredom is dissipated by the grace of a performance, film or photograph, which revives the masses of the sleeping city, and transforms them into fiction documentaries. Rebaptism : The Porte Saint-Martin, my column of Hercules. Method: I take the sidewalk right up to Stalingrad, I'll take the left one for down. At 3, with "AT THE DOOR ST MARTIN" adorns a grotesque unfinished. In a noble district, we would have finished the work of embellishment, I pursue them and m'intronise Vindicator boroughs. Synesthesia: the flow auto sets the mood visual, sound and smell of the suburb. 2 cars can barely fit on the floor, restricted by a bus lane. From the first step, the reign of textile wholesalers asserted with brutality. The art of brands and logograms, branding, all the rage street capitalist names - Yony Boy, Halogen, Star Kids - sometimes spiced with a pun (word tone), boast the style profane their business. As bad books are distinguished themselves by their titles, the impersonal goods became public. The name Thursday afternoon, alone, adds some depth to the infancy of the garment. Numérophilie: 3 bus from the street (38 + 39 + 47), added together, give 124. At 5, a shop dares to present the public with no name, its owner did not even bother to baptize a trade which he sees as mere means to achieve. The goods displayed in bulk jackets for children, called implicit anonymous junk. "
The full text is available at
Liminal Pierre Menard .
Further reading on the topic on the blog
During the weekend , the report on the writing workshop of Pierre Menard by Peter Cohen
Hadria and blog
Dominica Hasselmann , night falls on the Boulevard Saint-Martin and one remembers Book
Thomas Clerc :
Boulevard Saint-Martin, the night ended up falling (half)
Boulevard St. Martin, the night eventually fell (2 / 2)
Go
Saturday, March 13 at 14h. Center at Chateau Landon for a new writing workshop with Pierre Menard.
Information and reservations at the library: 01 44 65 90 04
