The Physiology of the Employee

by Honoré de Balzac

Book Overview

If Honor? de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity--the "mode" itself, fashion--his Physiology of the Employee examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: bureaucracy, and all of the cogs and wheels of which it is composed. Long before Franz Kafka described the nightmarish metaphysics of office bureaucracy, Balzac had undertaken his own exploration of the dust-laden, stifling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939663040
• ISBN13: 9781939663047
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 6.9"