Cheese

by Willem Elsschot

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Cheese is a gentle, satirical fable of capitalism and wealth. A clerk in Antwerp suddenly becomes the chief agent in Belgium and Luxembourg for this red-rinded Dutch delight and is saddled with 370 cases containing ten thousand full-cream cheeses. But he has no idea how to run a business, or how to sell his goods, and he doesn't even like cheese. Steeped in the atmosphere of the 1930s, in a world full of smart operators and and failed businessmen, Cheese gracefully incorporates the rigid class divisions of the time and a man's obsession with status. It is as relevant in our age of Internet investors and dot.com failures as it was when it was written.
  • ISBN13 9781862075566
  • Publish Date 20 February 2003 (first published 7 February 2002)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 March 2011
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Granta Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 160
  • Language English