Publicada originalmente en 1965, Las cosas obtuvo el Premio Renaudot y consagr\u00f3 a Georges Perec como escritor de primera fila y l\u00facido testigo de, en palabras de Jean Duvignaud, \u00abla incoercible dificultad de existir en los a\u00f1os sesenta\u00bb.J\u00e9r\u00f4me y Sylvie, una pareja de j\u00f3venes peque\u00f1oburgueses que se ganan la vida realizando encuestas para empresas de publicidad, sue\u00f1an con una existencia arropada de objetos exquisitos y elegantes. De hecho viven en un apartamento diminuto e inc\u00f3modo y apenas si ganan dinero para cubrir sus necesidades b\u00e1sicas. Naturalmente, les gustar\u00eda ser ricos: sabr\u00edan vestir, mirar y sonre\u00edr como la gente rica, tendr\u00edan su tacto y discreci\u00f3n, su clase\u2026 El fulgurante y despreocupado Par\u00eds de la \u00e9poca constituye una tentaci\u00f3n irresistible: escaparates de anticuarios, tiendas de libros raros, mercados y tenderetes repletos de agradables sorpresas. La sociedad de la opulencia les seduce con los signos de una vida refinada y garante de una tradici\u00f3n de buen gusto: divanes Chesterfield, camisas Arrow, corbatas de Old England. Sue\u00f1os de una existencia dichosa y prometedora, creados por una sociedad tentacular que fomenta expectativas artificiales en quienes no pueden satisfacerlas, que a la postre les precipitan en una encrucijada en que el tener promete el ser, en que la necesidad de belleza y perfecci\u00f3n les lleva a alienarse de s\u00ed mismos\u2026Las cosas es una aguda e ir\u00f3nica radiograf\u00eda de la sociedad de consumo y, en particular, de la mistificaci\u00f3n del confort y de los goces ofrecidos por un mundo cuya reconfortante banalidad propone m\u00faltiples espejismos de quimeras inasequibles. Narrada con magistral sencillez y distanciamiento, Las cosas desmenuza los perversos mecanismos con que las cosas subyugan a los hombres y es, sin duda, una novela anticipatoria cuya riqueza de significados se ha acrecentado con el paso de los a\u00f1os, al tiempo que Georges Perec se ha ido consolidando indiscutiblemente como uno de los grandes novelistas franceses del siglo XX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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