Title: Things - Georges Pérec - book
Summary :
In this story, so simple and so united that its profound originality should be emphasized, Georges Pérec attempts, the first with such rigor, to put the lessons of sociological analysis at the service of a novelistic enterprise. He describes the daily life of a young couple today from the middle classes, the idea that these young people have of happiness, the reasons why this happiness remains inaccessible to them - because it is linked to the things that one acquires, it is enslavement to things. "It is because there is," Georges Pérec will say, "between the things of the modern world and happiness, an obligatory relationship... Those who imagined that I condemned the consumer society have really understood nothing of my book; because, in our capitalist society, it is: things promised are not things owed.
