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Buddenbrooks and the Novel of Business

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The spheres of art and the imagination have painfully little in common with business, trade and finance, and some might go so far as to see these two vocations, the artist and the manager, as diametrically opposed in their values and perspectives. This tension manifests itself in many ways, but with particular intensity in the field of the novel.

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