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Things: A Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep

Things: A Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep

Bellos, David
Leak, Andrew
Perec, Georges

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Series: Verba Mundi (Paperback)

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Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1567921574
ISBN13: 9781567921571
Publisher: Verba Mundi
Published: Jul 16 2010
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Two 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.


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