Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep

by Perec, Georges

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published 03/03/2011 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages

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.