Things: A Story of the Sixties With A Man Asleep - Softcover

Perec, Georges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099541661 ISBN 13: 9780099541660

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2011

Synopsis

Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation.

In A Man Asleep, a young student embarks upon a disturbing and exhaustive pursuit of indifference, following his experience in non-existence with relentless logic.

About this title

About the Author:

Georges Perec (1936-82) won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 for his first novel Things: A Story of the Sixties, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial to the deeply personal. He composed acrostics, anagrams, autobiography, criticism, crosswords, descriptions of dreams, film scripts, heterograms, lipograms, memories, palindromes, plays, poetry, radio plays, recipes, riddles, stories short and long, travel notes, univocalics, and, of course, novels. Life: A User's Manual, which draws on many of Perec's other works, appeared in 1978 after nine years in the making and was acclaimed a masterpiece to put beside Joyce's Ulysses. It won the Prix Medicis and established Perec's international reputation.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099541661
• ISBN 13: 9780099541660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224