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20. Critique of Everyday Life, p. 49.
21. Ibid., p. 13.
22. Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World (Penguin, London, 1971),
p. 14.
23. Critique of Everyday Life, p. 6.
24. Ibid., pp. 37–38.
25. Karl Marx, “The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts,” in Karl
Marx—Early Writings (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974), p. 326.
26. Marx, Capital—Volume 1 (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1976), p. 493.
27. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Verso,
London, 1998), p. 38.
28. Critique of Everyday Life, p. 202.
29. Ibid., p. 207. Emphasis in original.
30. The urging is Rabelais’s opening address “To My Readers.” I’ve cited
Burton Raffel’s translation of Gargantua and Pantagruel (W.W. Norton,
New York, 1990).
31. Lefebvre, Rabelais (Anthropos, Paris, 2001), p. 213.
32. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, 1984), p. 10.
33. Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, p. 124.
34. Lefebvre, Rabelais, p. 112.
35. Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, p. 124.
36. Lefebvre, Rabelais, pp. 113–14.
37. Ibid., p. 203.
Chapter 2
1. In the mid-1980s, just before soaring rents forced Lefebvre out of rue
Rambuteau, he wrote a quirky “Rhythmanalysis” essay titled “Seen from
the Window,” describing the rhythms, murmurs, and noises of the street
down below. “From the window opening onto rue R.,” he says, “facing
the famous P. Centre, there is no need to lean much to see into the distance.
… To the right, the palace-centre P., the Forum, up as far as the
Bank of France. To the left up as far as the Archives, perpendicular to this
direction, the Hôtel de Ville and, on the other side, the Arts et Metiers.
The whole of Paris, ancient and modern, traditional and creative, active
and idle” is there. See Henri Lefebvre, Rhythnanalysis (Continuum Books,
London, 2004), p. 28. As of December 2004, the Forum, a subterranean
shopping arcade once described by historian Louis Chevalier as “a deep,
fetid underground,” will soon be history. Paris’s socialist mayor Bertrand
Delanoë chose David Mangin’s ecological sensitive two-hectare garden
cum public square, with a giant luminous roof, as the Forum’s more worthy
replacement.
2. Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World, p. 58.
3. Ibid., p. 58.
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