Author : John Bredin
Release : 2013-02-27
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Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 948/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spy in the House of Capitalism by : John Bredin
Download or read book Spy in the House of Capitalism written by John Bredin. This book was released on 2013-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adjunct English Professor John Bredin, tired of being broke in a country that doesn't value teaching, recently ventured outside the ethereal "groves of academe" to try and make a buck as a NYC real estate agent.The encounter between his deep ethical values and a shallow, empty, materialistic corporate culture-- permeated by a sense of meaninglessness and nihilistic despair--produced this cathartic "survival text." A peculiar, eclectic, and unclassifiable mix of memoir, fiction, rant, political & cultural critique, pedagogy, film and theater history, will to power, and business plan, the book also has a concrete functional purpose: to make the author rich quick to give him money for "the cause" of saving our democracy.Though mostly nonfiction, there is a novelistic quality to the text: considering Bakhtin's point about novels having a transformative "vanguard" aspect defined by heteroglossia (the sound of many discourses), dialogism, ideology, and a deep connection to everyday life and an evolving future. Publishers and bookstores may need to create a new genre category for this one. Perhaps existential quest narrative?