Raúl Hevia, La repetición. Tentativa [The repetition. An attempt], 2017, 128 p.
publisher’s summary:
A work of plastic art in the form of a book, that acts on different levels on the base of George Perec’s book Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu parisien [An attempt at exhaustion of a place in Paris; 1975], coming to Paris to write from the same places at the same time, on the same days as did the French writer. The result is the same book but also a different one, with a single image of the author as a result of his exploration.
Rául Hevia (Oviedo, Asturias, 1965) is an artist (website with examples of his work).
This book appeared as a recommendation by Gonzalo Queipo, a Madrid bookseller (bookstore Tipos Infames), in Llucia Ramis’ weekly article on the literary world in La Vanguardia (Dec. 30, 2017, p. 32). To this blogger it sounds interesting but also requiring a superior intellect to fully appreciate…
SOURCE: El Desvelo (publisher)
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