by Georges Perec · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266197816
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«Les choses» is the novel by Georges Perec published in 2009 by Pocket in paperback (157 pages, in French).
The novel follows Jérôme and Sylvie, a young couple in 1960s France who earn a living through unenthusiastic jobs while imagining a more comfortable existence. Their gaze lingers on objects, furniture, clothing, and small luxuries they associate with an always-deferred happiness; each material conquest awakens a new desire. Perec thus portrays a consumer society marked by dissatisfaction and the gap between the dreamed and the lived.
The work won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 and was originally published with the subtitle «Une histoire des années soixante».
For readers of twentieth-century French literature who want a short novel of social critique about consumerism.
Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust. Many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play.
