A Man Asleep

A Man Asleep

First English-language publication
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[]

• 1967 in literature
• 20th-century French literature

References[]

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