Scathing Punishment
13 May 2009
Tags: alain de botton | london review of books
From Alain de Botton’s recent book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, on entrepreneurs:
These individuals were writing their stories in a subgenre of
contemporary fiction, the business plan, and populating them with characters endowed with deeply implausible personalities, an oversight which would eventually be punished not by a scathing review by some bright young person from the London Review of Books but by a lack of custom and a prompt foreclosure.
[...] Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, via the LRB blog. These individuals were writing their stories in a subgenre of contemporary fiction, the business [...]