Product Description: Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelistA long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office?The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity—and possibly his sanity—as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world,with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas...read more

Product Description: La vida instrucciones de uso fue considerada desde su aparicion como una obra maestra y con los anos su importancia no dejan de crecer. Asi, esta obra maestra inclasificable de la que se ha dicho que es un compendio tan enciclopedico como la Comedia de Dante o los Cuentos de Canterbury de Chaucer, y, por su ruptura con la tradicion, tan estimulante como el Ulises de Joyce fue galardonada como la mejor novela de la decada 1975-1985 en la encuesta realizada por Le Monde...read more

Product Description: In 1979, Georges Perec (1936–1982) wrote a brief entertainment called “The Winter Journey” for a publisher’s catalogue. It quickly became his most frequently reprinted short story. Set on the eve of World War II, it recounts the discovery of a great literary masterpiece that conceals a scandalous secret at the heart of the whole of modern French literature...read more

Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block

Presents a selection of Georges Perec's non-fictional work.

Insomniac Anton Vowl is missing from his Paris rooms, and his companions look for information in his diary, in a work using no 'e'

Combining poetic and inquisitive text with a wide array of lavish images, a tour of Ellis Island shares the experiences of men and women who passed through its portals when immigrating to the United States. Original.