EAN: 9781804298510

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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.

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