Thomas Clerc

The author's description of the apartment in which he has lived for the past ten years and its furnishings.

Interior

Intérieur

Ernö Pretsch

Tables of Spectral Data for Structure Determination of Organic Compounds

Joseph Seibl

Wilhelm Simon

Although numerical data are, in principle, universal, the compilations presented in this book are extensively annotated and interleaved with text. This translation of the second German edition has been prepared to facilitate the use of this work, with all its valuable detail, by the large community of English-speaking scientists. Translation has also provided an opportunity to correct and revise the text, and to update the nomenclature. Fortunately, spectroscopic data and their relationship with structure do not change much with time so one can predict that this book will, for a long period of time, continue to be very useful to organic chemists involved in the identification of organic compounds or the elucidation of their structure. Klaus Biemann Cambridge, MA, April 1983 Preface to the First German Edition Making use of the information provided by various spectroscopic tech niques has become a ·matter of routine for the analytically oriented organic chemist. Those who have graduated recently received extensive training in these techniques as part of the curriculum while their older colleagues learned to use these methods by necessity. One can, therefore, assume that chemists are well versed in the proper choice of the methods suitable for the solution of a particular problem and to translate the experimental data into structural information.

"Comme j'ai été lent à faire le tour de ma maison! 3 ans pourtant c'est 3 fois moins qu'Ulysse revenant de Troie. Ulysse ne voulait pas rentrer à Ithaque, et moi je m'évertue à rester ici, je supplie de ne pas sortir." L'appartement de Thomas Clerc fait 50 mètres carrés. Il y vit depuis 10 ans. Il y passe la majeure partie de son temps. Sans doute parce qu'il est un homme d'intérieur, il a entrepris d'en faire le tour intégral avec cette espèce de vertige qui le pousse toujours à épuiser la totalité d'un espace.

1975, Georges Perec

W, ou, Le souvenir d'enfance

"Haunting, a book of ghosts and a book of this moment." —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times A comic experiment in sociology and self-absorption, the award-winning author Thomas Clerc’s autobiographical Interior is a unique invitation into a professor’s preoccupations and possessions within the rooms of a small Parisian apartment. Composed of bite-size vignettes, remembrances, and digressions, and filled with lighthearted transitions from pure description to quirky reminiscence and back, this meticulous tour through the rooms of Clerc’s home reveals fascinating insights into the author’s obsessions, desires, and frustrations. Each space is described in painstaking detail, sometimes down to the centimeter, and the history of every object and appliance is fully excavated with self-deprecating wit. From the ideal varieties of bathroom reading material to the color of his dish rack to the chaos of his sock drawer, Clerc happily and shamelessly guides us through the most intimate crannies of his home, as well as through all the strata of his existence as a bourgeois city dweller approaching middle age. Playful and irreverent, as well as a sly commentary on materialism, Interior finds drama in the domestic and dark humor in every doomed attempt to express individuality through the things that we own.

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