Art Of Asking Your Boss Cl

A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up thecourage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the coming encounter inhis mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What#x19;s the best day to see theboss? What if he doesn#x19;t offer you a seat when you go into his office? Andshould you ask that tricky question about his daughter#x19;s illness? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employeelosing his identity#x13;#x13;and possibly his sanity#x13;#x13;as he tries to put on themost acceptable face for the corporate world, with its rigid hierarchies andhostility to ideas and innovation. If he follows a certain course of action, sothis logic goes, he will succeed#x13;#x13;but, in accepting these conditions, are hisattempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less thanentertaining, Perec#x19;s Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute andpenetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it waswhen it was written in 1968.

Georges Perec was one of the most important experimental writers of the twentieth century. His many works include the novels Life: A User’s Manual; W, Or, The Memory of Childhood; and The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise.

David Bellos is the author of a number of award-winning literary biographies and the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for translation in 2005. He lives in New Jersey and teaches French, Italian, and Comparative literature at Princeton University.