Things: A Story of the Sixties and A Man Asleep (Verba Mundi (Paperback))Two thematically related novellas by Georges Perec in one volume. In each, Perec probes our obsession with societys trappingsthe seductive mass of things that masquerade as stability and meaning. In Things: A Story of the Sixties, Jerome and Sylvie, a young, upwardly mobile couple lust for the good life, caught between the fantasy of the film they would have liked to live and the reality of lifes daily mundanities. The nameless student in A Man Asleep

on an equally loud outdoor sofa

and bridges

As in her companion volume

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from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)

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From the fantastical digitized aluminum prototypes of Gregg Lynn to the stylish functionality of Ikea's prefabricated apartments in Sweden

Elizabeth Murray and Louise Fishman

in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos

and "brilliant" by the Washington Post

wanting to make sense of this ferocious

Without Cassandra