What rhymes with things: a story of the sixties?
things: a sto·ry of the six·ties

Things is a novel by Georges Perec. It received the Prix Renaudot in 1965. It recounts the life of a young couple — both pollsters — in the 1960s. At the end of the book, they depart to live in Sfax, Tunisia, as did in fact Georges Perec and his wife in 1960–1961. The characters in the novel do not hold as much textual importance as the things meticulously described throughout. Perec's use of the conditional tense plunges the reader into the dreams of the characters in the novel. The characters themselves are only introduced in the third chapter; the principal place being reserved for les choses, which are omnipresent in this novel. This novel also explores "happiness" in a consumer society.

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