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Buddenbrooks and the Novel of Business

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Buddenbrooks and the Novel of Business

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 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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