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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
Verlag:
Macmillan Publishers Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6REY3KR
EAN: 9781804298510
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Zustellung: Do, 24.09.2026
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Bellos David
- Perec Georges
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 96