Cheese

Newly Translated and Annotated

von Willem Elsschot

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Only edition in printWhen the ambitious but inept clerk Frans Laarmans is offered a job managing an Edam distribution company in Antwerp, he jumps at the chance, despite his professed dislike for cheese in all its forms. He soon finds himself submerged in a bureaucratic nightmare as his complete incompetence becomes apparent. Meanwhile, his offices fill up with a seemingly infinite supply of the distinctive red-skinned cheeses, which he has no idea how to sell.Skewering the pomposity of big business while revealing how an entrepreneurial spirit can often be a mask for buffoonery, Willem Elsschot's Cheese combines comedy and pathos in its depiction of a man trying to progress beyond his limited skill set. As poignant as it is funny, Cheese will appeal to anyone who has suffered the endless indignities of office life.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9781846884160
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.02.2017
• Größe: 195 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Alma Books Ltd
• Übersetzung: Sander Berg