Description

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.

Publisher Review

Required reading for anyone interested in the evolution of this modern master -- Andrew Motion * Observer * As a witty attack on consumerism Things is as much a parable of the Nineties as it is a story of the Sixties * Sunday Times * Perec's first novel is a masterpiece of elegaic mockery * Financial Times * Things, Perec's first novel, is an innovative, perceptive and even moving study of corrosive consumerism * Independent * [A Man Asleep is] grimly obsessing...one turns the pages with unlikely fascination -- Euan Cameron * Sunday Telegraph * [A Man Asleep] Bleak, benighted, uncompromisingly unhappy, this is not the book to read if you already have difficulty in finding reasons for getting out of bed * Guardian * A Man Asleep is true to its subject and also readable...a remarkable achievement * Independent * Perec's fiction is a delight to all who care for real literature * Guardian * Two striking, clumsy, romantic studies in extremism * Independent *