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Author | Georges Perec |
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Original title | Un homme qui dort |
Translator | Andrew Leak |
Language | French |
Publisher | Éditions Denoël |
Publication date | 1967 |
Publication place | France |
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]