Sistema de recompensa

Julia just got the sous chef job at the Cascine. "What a climb," says her mother. "Already". Mobile in hand, at Teddy's birthday party, Nick flirts with a bottle of rosé and no one else. "What would Freud make of the fact that adults my age were statistically more likely to live with their parents than with a partner?" Julia and Nick's lives should have started to take shape by now, however, suspended in an infinite scroll, dissatisfied and misunderstood, they keep trying out better versions of themselves, swiping left or right, as they try to come up with a convincing answer. to the question "And you, what do you do?" Reward System is the portrait of a millennial generation that has placed screens, the internet and its algorithms at the center of their lives. With dark humour, attention to detail and large doses of intelligence, Calder's prose makes us wince between mockery and horror, capturing the mood of a generation of hyperconnected young people and revealing how everything seems to dissolve in the face of the power of the algorithm. . Rabidly current, this electrifying literary debut moves away from all foreseeable clichés and defines, at last, what it means to be young today.