The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by French literary stalwart Georges Perec is a darkly comedic classic previously lost to the English language. In celebration of what would have been Perec’s 75th birthday, Verso publishing is releasing the book in English for the very first time. Perec’s novel, called a “crazy-quilt monument to the imagination” by Paul Auster, delves into hilariously bleak detail the minutiae that go through all of our heads as we approach that most unapproachable of tasks: asking your boss for a raise. If you need something handy to keep in your pocket as you’re about to approach that old so-and-so of a slave driver, you’re in luck: Verso’s included a handy flow chart on everything you could possibly need to consider beforehand.
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Are the gendered titles really necessary? The boss is male and the secretary is female? Really?
Look into things: the book was written in 1968, in France. The boss probably was male, and the secretary probably was female.
[...] the computer’s “basic mode of operation as a writing device.” Perriaud devised a flow-chart—a visual representation of a computer algorithm—that might play out the different narrative options involved in asking one’s boss for a pay [...]
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