Things: A Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep
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ISBN10: 156792879X
ISBN13: 9781567928792
Publisher: Verba Mundi
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781567928792
Publisher: Verba Mundi
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
One couple consumed by things. One man liberated by indifference. Two haunting explorations of the things we own--and the things that own us.
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 the century's most innovative writers. Things: A Story of the Sixties is accessible, sobering, and deeply involving. Each distills Perec's unerring grasp of the human condition and displays his rare comic talent, detachment, and compassion.
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