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A Parisian Concierge

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This video segment complements the 2014 English-language edition of History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, edited by Devin Fore and translated by Richard Langston (Zone Books).

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The story of the Parisian concierges relates to a collaborative project that Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein proposed to James Joyce on a visit with the author in Paris in 1929.

See “The Concierges of Paris” (pp. 428-29).

Duration:
00:02:05
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History and Obstinacy