Description 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.
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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.
Description 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
