{"product_id":"9781804298510","title":"The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise","description":"“One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.”\n—Italo Calvino\n\n“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.”\n—Steven Poole, Guardian\n\nThe 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’.\n\nThis 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.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45359056617587,"sku":"9781804298510","price":158.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/10999403482830.jpg?v=1790068490","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.shop\/de\/products\/9781804298510","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}