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Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep
by Georges Perec
Oct. 1, 2025 - Oct. 10, 2025 (fiction)

Perec, G. (1965). Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep. Verba Mundi.


Verba Mundi, 1965. 221 pages. Paperback. 9781567921571

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p.211
salutary »
(adjective) producing a beneficial effect; remedi…
p.203
charnel »
(noun) a building or chamber in which bodies or b…
p.203
pallid »
(adjective) deficient in color; wan / (adjective)…
p.47
dudgeon »
a feeling of offense or deep resentment
p.114
some glowing marvel which would even the score
They tried to get away from Sfax, from its dreary…
p.219
indifference teaches you nothing
You have learnt nothing, except that solitude tea…
p.197
the drowsy complicity of the last bars to remain …
You will not break the magic circle of solitude. …
p.184
you play pinball or you don't
You walk or you do not walk. You sleep or you do …
p.170
your stomach can no longer tell the difference
From now on, when you eat standing up at the coun…