The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature by Beth Blum
English | May 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 0231194927 | 344 pages | EPUB | 5.25 MB
Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day.