This book is for the moment in French only - but for those of you that can read French- I recommend this book.
Flore, the heroin of "A Girl in the City" is a Net Generation Girl.
She is a young business woman in constant search of "self". A graduate of French Ivy League School - Flore has a great future in a French establishment. But the routine of the "big entreprise", the boredom of everyday job, apathy and conformism scare her to death. Flore wants to experience freedom, she wants self-realisation and she wants to find the love. Flore is a rebel with dreams and ideals.
She quits 'the job' and leaves for United States with no visa, the proverbial 'two dollars' in the pocket and a passion to change the world. Its 2000 - the Internet El Dorado years. The net economy religion is simple: one can write a page in internet history - participate in its creation and progression and make money.
Flore creates a startup...
"A girl in the City" is a chronicle of our times and of our generation:
- The era of permanent information and Net Slaves - prisoners of a new system driven by performance, excellence, pressure to deliver and make money.
- The era of the Individuals TBD ( to be determined) who live in a constant stress of not having the last version of..., the last model of..., the individuals in fear of not delievering , not being on top... the individuals trying to fill the void in themselves.
- The society of stop and go- defined by utilitarian conception of human relations. The importance of people is defined by what they bring to you and your performance.
Flore forces you to step back and seek your own "self".
You can find the book on Amazon.fr
Is it a fiction? Does this remind you of your own experience?
Posted by: dubuc | October 26, 2006 at 08:47 AM