Georges Perec: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
- Übersetzung:
- David Bellos
- Verlag:
- Verso Books, 07/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781804298510
- Artikelnummer:
- 12173633
- Gewicht:
- 367 g
- Maße:
- 178 x 111 mm
- Stärke:
- 8 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 15.7.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise ---neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic, and never less than entertaining---is a penetrating vision of the world of office work. As translator David Bellos writes, it shows us what 'computers, perhaps even those powered today by AI, simply cannot do: make us laugh and make us cry'.
This playful novel originated with a 1968 invitation from IBM, then searching for a writer to explore the use of computers in literature. Georges Perec took up the invite and programmed an early computer to follow the steps an employee of a large corporation would take to submit a successful request for a raise. (Perec himself was such a lowly employee at the time, his prospects of getting a raise as dim as those of the narrator of this tale.) From that algorithmic experiment grew this pioneering and enduring fiction.
Biografie (Georges Perec)
Georges Perec geboren 1936 in Paris; gestorben 1982 in Ivry-sur-Seine, war französischer Schriftsteller und Filmemacher. Er war Mitglied der Oulipo-Gruppe und wird zu den wichtigsten Vertretern der französischen Nachkriegsliteratur gezählt.