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soul of the investment industry in the new millennium. Its protagonist, Wayne, is an unscrupulous, legendary short seller. Berberian's real zest is for viciously satirizing the demigods of Wall Street with self-conscious language that is by turns lyrical and lacerating. Das
Kapital is, as the title would suggest, both an homage and a ruthlessly funny take-down of Karl Marx's exhaustive, unfinished analysis of the capitalist system. It "captures financial lingo with hilarious panache."
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impressive in its ability to predict the financial crisis (the book appeared in 2007) and its insight, deeper than Wayne's, into why Karl Marx's Das
Kapital is especially useful as a shorthand for the entwinement of finance, social relations, and globalization in the twilight of the American empire."
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wrote: "No, this isn't a new translation of Marx's obtuse and history altering tome, but a slim, impeccably cool new novel ... Berberian juxtaposes the cold, profit-driven trading environment of Wall Street, with the lush antiquated calm of
Marseille, France." Das Kapital emblematizes the existential
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Berberian, a New Yorker, has somehow—the somehow is actually highly skilled writing—managed to create a believable world in the mind of a young man about to end the lives of hundreds of innocents in what can no longer be called an unbelievable act...Deeply creepy, funny and
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Security after 9/11: Oil, Narrative, and Globalization," Georgiana Banita of Universität Bamberg noted: "The juxtaposition of finance jargon and poetic language was pioneered by Viken Berberian's Das Kapital: a novel of love and money markets, which is doubly
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and was widely reviewed. It deals with the thoughts of a nameless suicide bomber on a mission to use a bicycle race in
Lebanon as a ruse for an insidious, international bombing conspiracy. The protagonist, the eponymous "cyclist," shares with readers his obsession with food. In the
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