A Man Asleep

This article is about the 1967 novel. For the 1974 film adaptation, see The Man Who Sleeps.
A Man Asleep
Author Georges Perec
Original title Un homme qui dort
Translator Andrew Leak
Country France
Language French
Publisher Éditions Denoël
Publication date
 1967
Published in English
 1990
Pages 167

A Man Asleep (French: Un homme qui dort) is a 1967 novel by the French writer Georges Perec. It uses a second-person narrative, and follows a 25-year-old student, who one day decides to be indifferent about the world. A Man Asleep was adapted into a 1974 film, The Man Who Sleeps.[1]

Publication

The novel was published in France through Éditions Denoël in 1967. An English translation by Andrew Leak was published in 1990 through David R. Godine, Publisher, in a shared volume with Perec's first novel, Things: A Story of the Sixties.[2]

Reception

Upon the American release, Richard Eder of the Los Angeles Times compared the two novels of the volume—Things and A Man Asleep—, and wrote that Things was "the more engaging of the two, though less focused and ultimately, perhaps, less memorable." He wrote that in A Man Asleep, "Perec shows a beauty on the far side of the void; a humanity on the far side of refusal."[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Un homme qui dort". AlloCiné (in French). Tiger Global. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
  2. 1 2 Eder, Richard (1990-11-04). "All Parts, No Sum". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-10-30.


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