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Georges Perec The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise (Paperback). Further DetailsTitle: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise Condition: New Author: Georges Perec Translator: David Bellos Contributor: David Bellos (Translated by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1804298514 EAN: 9781804298510 ISBN: 9781804298510 Publisher: Verso Books Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, Fiction Release Date: 06/24/2025 Description: 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. Language: English, French Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 178mm Item Length: 111mm Item Width: 8mm Item Weight: 100g Release Year: 2025 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
