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After dropping out of school, Jerome and Sylvia work part-time as psychosociologists, but refuse to work full-time, valuing their unlimited leisure time. At the same time, they are in love with the world of beautiful things, which, due to lack of money, is inaccessible to them. The promised things through which they try to understand themselves and build their own identities symbolise for them true but unattainable happiness, and Paris itself seems to be a "prison of affluence". The intolerability of this life prompts them to flee to distant Tunisia, but they find no solace there either. Thanks to its criticism of consumerism, Perek's novel Things (1965) still sounds extremely relevant today. In 1965, this work was awarded the prestigious French Prix Renodo.

The novel The Sleeping Man (1967) tells the story of a student who suddenly withdrew into himself, renouncing not only his studies but also life itself. His dormant consciousness places him as if outside of time, and his days are filled with mechanical actions that remain unconscious. All the things around him lose their meaning. Perek skilfully conveys the emptiness that the protagonist tries to create around him through fanciful descriptions of states on the verge of sleep. The constant repetition of days and nights filled with monotonous activities and situations creates a special slow motion rhythm endowed with ghostly, melancholic poetry.