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Original Title:	Les choses
ISBN:	2266131079 (ISBN13: 9782266131070)
Edition Language:	French

Les choses

Georges Perec

Paperback | Pages: 157 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 2786 Users | 199 Reviews

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Title	:	Les choses
Author	:	Georges Perec
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 157 pages
Published	:	December 3rd 2002 by Pocket (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Cultural. France. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature. Roman

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L.F: " Les choses " ? C'est un titre qui intrigue, qui alimente les malentendus. Plutôt qu'un livre sur les choses, au fond n'avez-vous pas écrit un livre sur le bonheur ? G. P: C'est qu'il y a, je pense, entre les choses du monde moderne et le bonheur, un rapport obligé. Une certaine richesse de notre civilisation rend un type de bonheur possible : on peut parler, en ce sens, comme d'un bonheur d'0rly, des moquettes profondes, d'une figure actuelle du bonheur qui fait, je crois, que pour être heureux, il faut être absolument moderne. Ceux qui se sont imaginé que je condamnais la société de consommation n'ont vraiment rien compris à mon livre. Mais ce bonheur demeure un possible ; car, dans notre société capitaliste, c'est : choses promises ne sont pas choses dues. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

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Perec's prose cuts into our hopes and aspirations with a nastily incisive scalpel. Brilliant but draining.

Interestingly written, very from above and afar description of the relationship between the person and objects of desire. Follows a young couple and their path to become bourgeois malgré eux.

I gave up about a third of the way through. It's like an endless first chapter without ever getting properly into the story. There is no speech, direct or reported. It's an interesting experiment, but it fails. The main characters are distant and I never became interested in them. It reads more like the notes a novelist might make about his or her characters before committing them to the manuscript than it reads like an actual novel.

Read it in one sitting in a sunny afternoon in a Riga park. This book is amazing, gripping and oddly relatable for a twenty-something freelancer/ hipster like I was that afternoon. Makes me want to read more of the author and makes me wanna change my life. Perhaps. Someday. Maybe tomorrow.

George Perec's Les Choses recounts the story of a French couple living in the 60s. Jérôme and Sylvie are pollsters: they live mundane and mediocre lives. Both dream of richesse and luxury, but such a life incessantly eludes them. Even after things look a bit brighter on the financial side, unwise spending throws them into the struggles of frugality once more. Finally, they decide to move to Tunisie (escape, really) - for a change of scene, for the possibility of materialistic promise - but even

Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges PerecI felt redeemed by reading this book. Every desire, dream, despair, longing, and myriads of other emotions I felt were described here. It was serendipitous to see my life story in Sylvies. Im just gushing over this book mentally and my writing cant keep up.

This seems to be the debut of Perec (1936-1982), and it was an instant hit. It takes a while before you're into the story, but then it turns out to be the story of a pair of students, Jerome and Sylvie, that dream of a rich life, - rich in the material sense of the word: to have beautiful, valuable things. Perec describes nicely how their dream remains unfulfilled and how they are slowly digested by frustration; only in the end there's a slight positive evolution (but that remains rather vague).