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Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority.
Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics: Borges's parables of the 1950s, Beckett's plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee's pedagogic novels of the 2000s. In their transition to 'late style', the works reflect their writers' abiding concern with particular conceptions of...

• Have you ever thought: "I'd better not try, I could be embarrassed"?
• Does it bother you to see someone you know get ahead -- of you?
• Have you ever thought: "Its my responsibility to make sure my loved ones are happy"?
• Is your motto "Anything worth doing must be done absolutely right"?
• Do you tend to qualify your responses?
• That is, do you find yourself saying: "Yes, its good, but..."?
• Have you ever concluded: "Everybody thinks I messed up"?
• Have you ever thought: "I just can't lose.
• Let's face it,...

• Budgets and savings (great ways to get the stuff you really want )
• The basics of stocks, bonds, and other ways of investing
• Credit cards ("The Plastic Flash") and borrowing
• Updated information on the Internet with useful Web links
• Online investing, Web safety precautions
• Saving...

This fun and fact-filled classic, fully updated, is packed with cartoons, quizzes, games, and stories about starting up a business and making money from it. A savvy brother-and-sister team, Arthur and Rose explain everything you need to know to start 20 super businesses ranging from lemonade stands to recycling:

• Business budgets
• Record keeping and filing
• Telephoning and e-mailing
• Using the Internet to find information
• Negotiating
• Putting it in writing
• Marketing and advertising
• Networking
• Human relations