In this novel, hero travis McGee is trying to recover a friend’s money lost in a land development scam. What a giant compared to Kurt Vonnegut describes his work as “a treasure in the order of the Tomb of Tutankhamen”. He wrote the source material for Robert Mitchum and Robert DeNiro’s respective scary versions of “Cape Fear,” and no less. McDonald is perhaps considered the greatest horror writer of the 20th century. His last novel, “The Confident Man”, also focused on finance.
He stopped writing novels shortly after “Bartleby”. Now recognized as one of the America’s greatest novelist, “Moby Dick” author has found little success in his life. More specifically, some think that Scrivener reflects Herman Melville’s profound rage over finance and markets. Despite his employer’s genuine concerns, and against all apparent logic, Bartleby adhered to this principle until he died of starvation in a debtor’s prison.īartleby’s behavior is never explained, making him a semi-occult avatar for deniers everywhere. Bartleby, for a time Once upon a time, a hard-working employee in a Wall Street law firm, suddenly began to refuse all jobs, and indeed all activities, for no apparent reason. Sometimes described as the first existentialist novel (actually a novel), this disclaimer is appropriately set in New York’s financial district circa 1850. “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” – Herman Melville (1850) And it’s all about that mystical organization, which everyone needs: lucre, beans, cheddar, lettuce, money. Some of these books are Big L Literature, and others are finely crafted entertainment. So here, with the holidays on us, is a “Educational Fun To-Do List” for anyone curious about money and finance in all their surreal complications. High on my personal list of “Type A Maniac Life Hacks” is immersing myself in a great and entertaining book that also happens to teach me something.
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re part of an incredibly privileged slice of humanity with access to what’s known as “leisure time.” Chances are it’s also pretty good that you’re the kind of mentality that wants to spend it as efficiently as possible.
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