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Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep (Vintage Classics) [Paperback]

Georges Perec (Author)

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Publication Date: 3 Mar 2011 | Series: Vintage Classics

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.

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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.

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage Classics (3 Mar 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0099541661
ISBN-13: 978-0099541660
Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 113,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Required reading for anyone interested in the evolution of this modern master" (Andrew Motion Observer )

"As a witty attack on consumerism Things is as much a parable of the Nineties as it is a story of the Sixties" (Sunday Times )

"Perec's first novel is a masterpiece of elegaic mockery" (Financial Times )

"Things, Perec's first novel, is an innovative, perceptive and even moving study of corrosive consumerism" (Independent )

"[A Man Asleep is] grimly obsessing...one turns the pages with unlikely fascination" (Euan Cameron Sunday Telegraph )

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Two brilliant, witty and subversive stories from the modern master - cult classics for the 60s generation

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant satire and hypnotic ennui 12 Jun 2002

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Two very different books - this is, after all, Perec, whose project was to write one of everything. Things was the novel which brought him to the world's attention, a satire on consumerism, ambition and self-satisfaction which is subtle and affecting.
The more striking book, though, is A Man Asleep. It is the story of a student who withdraws from the world, told in the second person - an extremely unusual literary device which, in Perec's hands, is incredibly effective. Everyone I know who has read this book has been stricken with near-clinical depression! The novel's hypnotic voice is irresistible.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ideas still fresh and even more relevant today, 30 yrs later 24 July 1999

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We tend to forget,in our "rat race" for things that money can buy, that happiness can only come from within. We may race for the things that money can buy, but very often we forget to enjoy the ride.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Thinks about things... 17 May 1999

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Rolex,BMW,VERSACE,DKNY,LACOSTE,RR,... tHINGS... WE'RE SLAVE TO THINGS... IDEALISM IS DEAD... 'CAUSE WE'RE LIVIN' IN SYNTHETIC TIMES...

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