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With the American publication of Life, a Users Manual in 1987, Georges Perec was immediately recognized in the U.S. as one of this centurys most innovative writers. Now Godine is pleased to issue two of his most powerful novels in one volume: Things, in an authoritative new translation, and A Man Asleep, making its first English appearance. Both provoked strong reactions when they first appeared in the 1960s; both which speak with disquieting immediacy to the conscience of todays readers. In each tale Perec subtly probes our obsession with societys trappings the seductive mass of things that crams our lives, masquerading as stability and meaning.Jerome and Sylvie, the young, upwardly mobile couple in Things, lust for the good life. They wanted lifes enjoyment, but all around them enjoyment was equated with ownership. Surrounded by Pariss tantalizing exclusive boutiques, they exist in a paralyzing vacuum of frustration, caught between the fantasy of the film they would have liked to live and the reality of lifes daily mundanities.In direct contrast with Jerome and Sylvies cravings, 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 that this wish is by its very nature a defeat.Accessible, sobering, and deeply involving, each novel distills Perecs unerring grasp of the human condition as well as displaying his rare comic talent. His generosity of observation is both detached and compassionate.
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