The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
€15.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781804298510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georges Perec |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.082 |
| Publishing Date | 24/06/2025 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.15 |
| Tax | €0.85 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.00 |
| Availability | 4 units in external warehouse |
Product 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.