The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
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Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781804298510 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Georges Perec |
| Editora | Verso Books |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 96 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,082 |
| Data de Publicação | 24/06/2025 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 14,15 |
| Imposto | € 0,85 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 15,00 |
| Disponibilidade | 4 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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.