The art of asking your boss for a raise

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Sinopse

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.“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

Participantes

Autor: Georges Perec

Tradutor: David Bellos

Autor

GEORGES PEREC

Georges Perec (Paris, 1936 – Ivry sur Seine, 1982) é tido, hoje, como uma das figuras preeminentes da literatura da segunda metade do século XX. Publicou sua primeira novela, As Coisas, em 1965, a qual lhe grangeou rapidamente um grande êxito, tendo sido galardoada com o prêmio Renaudot. Dois anos depois, Perec filiou-se ao OuLiPo, a Oficina de Literatura Potencial, que fora criada em 1961 por Raymond Queneau e pelo matemático Le Lionnais. Em 1978, publicou Vida, modo de usar, cujo êxito o consagrou como autor e lhe permitiu abandonar seu emprego de arquivista para se dedicar inteiramente à literatura.