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PublisherGodine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-100879238577
ISBN-139780879238575
eBay Product ID (ePID)1118092
Product Key Features
Book TitleThings: a Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorGeorges Perec
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-055284
SynopsisTwo thematically-related novellas by Georges Perec in one volume. In each, Perec probes our obsession with society's trappings--the seductive mass of things that masquerade as stability and meaning. In Things: A Story of the Sixties , Jerome and Sylvie, a young, upwardly mobile couple lust for the good life, caught between the fantasy of "the film they would have liked to live" and the reality of life's daily mundanities. The nameless student in A Man Asleep attempts to purify himself entirely of material desires and ambition. He longs "to want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep." Yearning to exist on neutral ground as "a blessed parenthesis," he discovers something unexpected. With the American publication of Life: A User's Manual in 1987, Georges Perec was recognized in the United States as one of this century's most innovative writers. Things: A Story of the Sixties is accessible, sobering, and deeply involving. Each novel distills Perec's unerring grasp of the human condition and displays his rare comic talent, detachment, and compassion.
LC Classification NumberPQ2676.E67A23 1990
