Name: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
Brand: Verso Books
SKU: 9781804298510
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Author: Georges Perec
ISBN: 9781804298510

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec

Author: Georges Perec

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“One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.” —Italo Calvino “A satire for the author’s day and oh yes our own on the subtly crushing effects of corporate life … [a] delectable and philosophical office farce.” —Steven Poole, Guardian 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 24 June 2025
Language: English
ISBN: 9781804298510

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