Kaas
1933
First Published
3.58
Average Rating
134
Number of Pages
Cheese is a gentle, satirical fable of capitalism and wealth. A clerk in Antwerp suddenly becomes the chief agent in Belgium and Luxembourg for Edam cheese and is saddled with 10,000 wheels of the red-rinded delight. But he has no idea how to run a business or how to sell his goods, and what’s more, he doesn’t even like cheese. Steeped in the atmosphere of the 1930s, an era of smart operators and failed businessmen, Cheese gracefully portrays the rigid class divisions of the time and a man’s obsession with status. This comic masterpiece about the perils of upward mobility is as relevant in the age of Internet investors and dot-com failures as it was when it was written.
Avg Rating
3.58
Number of Ratings
7,900
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
38%
3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
4%
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Author
Willem Elsschot
Author · 14 books
Willem Elsschot is het pseudoniem van Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver. Willem Elsschot in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia Willem Elsschot in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren Willem Elsschot bij "Schrijversgewijs" Willem Elsschot is the pseudonym of Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, a Flemish poet and writer. Willem Elsschot in the English Wikipedia
