/lit/ - Literature

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>As a wage slave under capitalism you must work to “make a living” or live a short life on the streets. That’s your choice under capitalism.

No. That wasn’t true even when it was somewhat true. Wage labor is for idiots, and entrepreneurs are glad to have them in batches.
>this book is good
No. What irritated me most in his reading is that Finley seemed to me to have no sympathy for his subject, who is fictional btw, and that he stuns and chills the reader with a cold and bitter irony that almost always falls badly. More than once I have jumped like a devil from his box reading this or that prejudiced assault with aplomb. It looks like one of those Romans whom jealousy has led to lambasting with acrimonious sarcasm as gratuitous as unjust those pesky graeculi who imposed their culture on their winner. Also, I much prefer the delicate finesse of a Buffière, the enthusiastic alacrity of a Vidal-Naquet, the industrious and open curiosity of a Jouanno, or the active and imaginative erudition of a Victor Bérard to the boring and unpleasant report of a piss-froid. A little disappointed, therefore, by this book that has not really managed to excite me.