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Title	:	Les choses
Author	:	Georges Perec
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 157 pages
Published	:	December 3rd 2002 by Pocket (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Cultural. France. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature. Roman

Les choses

Georges Perec

Paperback | Pages: 157 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 2786 Users | 199 Reviews

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L.F: " Les choses " ? C'est un titre qui intrigue, qui alimente les malentendus. Plutôt qu'un livre sur les choses, au fond n'avez-vous pas écrit un livre sur le bonheur ? G. P: C'est qu'il y a, je pense, entre les choses du monde moderne et le bonheur, un rapport obligé. Une certaine richesse de notre civilisation rend un type de bonheur possible : on peut parler, en ce sens, comme d'un bonheur d'0rly, des moquettes profondes, d'une figure actuelle du bonheur qui fait, je crois, que pour être heureux, il faut être absolument moderne. Ceux qui se sont imaginé que je condamnais la société de consommation n'ont vraiment rien compris à mon livre. Mais ce bonheur demeure un possible ; car, dans notre société capitaliste, c'est : choses promises ne sont pas choses dues. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

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Original Title:	Les choses
ISBN:	2266131079 (ISBN13: 9782266131070)
Edition Language:	French

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I did not like the style or characters or ideology of The Things: A story of the Sixties.There is no dialog at all, and the narrator uses conditional tense which I am not used to. Although Perec does describe items and scenes very well.The things a story of the sixties is about a guy and a gal Jerome and Sylvie, who start a life together in France and decide that what they wear/eat/own/friends/jobs/magazines/books/art/vacations/apartment, all give meaning to their selves and their happiness. I

This reads like a very long complaint about consumerist society

Read it in one sitting in a sunny afternoon in a Riga park. This book is amazing, gripping and oddly relatable for a twenty-something freelancer/ hipster like I was that afternoon. Makes me want to read more of the author and makes me wanna change my life. Perhaps. Someday. Maybe tomorrow.

Things, we all want things. Stuff, we all like stuff. To have stuff we need money. To have money we need a way to get money. The hunt for stuff becomes a search for self, meaning, identity, and we live our lives in the conditional and future tenses, working at our so-called "bullshit jobs". Not much has changed since the 60s, it seems. Or the 20s, or whatever decade you care to name in modern times. Is what we have here then a little anti-modernity treatise? Perhaps, and if so, that's its flaw.

This seems to be the debut of Perec (1936-1982), and it was an instant hit. It takes a while before you're into the story, but then it turns out to be the story of a pair of students, Jerome and Sylvie, that dream of a rich life, - rich in the material sense of the word: to have beautiful, valuable things. Perec describes nicely how their dream remains unfulfilled and how they are slowly digested by frustration; only in the end there's a slight positive evolution (but that remains rather vague).

Leur vie était comme une trop longue habitude, comme un ennui presque serein: une vie sans rien. The things we have, the things we say, the things we read, the things we see, the things we hear, the things we lack, the things we desire, the things we throw away, the things we keep Things are markers of identity, more than anything. When Neil MacGregor set out to describe A History of the World in 100 Objects he faced the entirety of humanity in the seemingly endless object collection of the

Still so true today: the subtitle "A story of the Sixties" could also be of the 70es, 80es etc.