March 1st 1974 He also has two sisters: Sidonie, who appears in La curée, and Marthe, one of the protagonists of La conquête de Plassans. It's all about greed and how it overwhelms and destroys seemingly rational-, level- headed people. 1853). Of the works in the Rougon-Macquart cycle I've read thus far, Money is the one that delves deepest into morality, chiefly through the character of Madame Caroline. I'm undecided as to whether a re-read would be painful, or pleasantly enlightening. This book written in the 1880's and set in the 1860's is about bank fraud, stock market bubbles, short selling, financial fraud and the terrible toll taken on ordinary people at the expense of the super wealthy, who are barely punished if at all for their crimes. Through the intervention of Saccard's brother Eugène Rougon, who doesn't want a brother in jail, their sentences are commuted and they are forced to leave France. Definitely the least enjoyable of the five Rougon-Macquart novels I've read. His exploration of the money markets and of anti-semitism are both expertly done, and thoroughly engaging. L'industriel Hector de Sastres, spéculateur, ami et protégé du ministre Jacques Louis Randon, a aussi inspiré le personnage de Saccard. Le scandale de Panama est amplifié par la liquidation judiciaire de la Compagnie de Panama, le 4 février 1889, au moment où Zola écrit L’Argent. A widower, Maxime (who played a central role in La curée) lives alone in opulence he does not share. He lives in the house of the widowed Princess d'Orviedo, who is busy deliberately impoverishing herself by pouri. Victor, on the other hand, brought up in squalor, is the furthest extreme Zola illustrates of the Rougon family's degeneracy. Jugeant l'action trop élevée, les Rothschild et la Caisse générale des chemins de fer de Jules Mirès avaient spéculé à la baisse, à l'instar de l'ennemi juré de Saccard dans L’Argent, le banquier Gundermann. From the beginning, Saccard's Banque Universelle (Universal Bank) stands on shaky ground. Well, almost all. But Victor is completely unredeemable, given over to greed, laziness, and thievery. Aristide Rougon (known somewhat mysteriously as Saccard) loves the stuff. Le romancier se livre par endroits à des considérations philosophiques sur le changement « qualitatif » qu'opère dans l'esprit la disposition de ressources importantes, permettant de transformer jusqu'aux paysages eux-mêmes. Zola doesn't get under the fingernails and into the pores of his characters here like he does in other novels in the series. As always Zola does this almost scientifically. This page was last edited on 15 August 2020, at 17:59. After he attacks one of the women at the institution, he disappears into the streets, never to be seen again. Découvrez L’Argent de Zola analysée par François BOULOC au travers d’œuvres et d’images d’archive. In fact the characters all kind of blend and merge together and I began to have real difficulty telling them apart. 'Ah! Émile François Zola was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. Saccard teams up with his co-tenants, the upright, sensible and ever youthful Madame Caroline and her naïve, engineer brother Hamelin in a scheme to establish a steamboat company (with a capital of millions) which would set up exclusive shipping lines to all the ports of Africa, Spain, Italy, Greece, Egypt and Asia, to then set up another company to mine silver and iron in the "Orient" and then to build "an entire railway system running across Asia Minor from one end to the other". Everything that Wall Street investors have tried, has probably been attempted by Saccard in the Parisian Bourse. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.”, http://www.livredepoche.com/largent-emile-zola-9782253003670, Dîner classique du 19 mai 2019 autour du livre "L'Argent" d'Emile Zola, Money by Émile Zola (Gill, Laura and Jenny), Finding the 1,000 Books to Read in a Lifetime. Saccard is an unscrupulous financier, rapist and fantasist who would sell his soul (again) to recapture his lost fortune and rule the Bourse (the nineteenth century French stockmarket). Saccard is an unscrupulous financier, rapist and fantasist who would sell his soul (again) to recapture his lost fortune and rule the Bourse (the nineteenth century French stockmarket). 1840) and Victor (b. He is first introduced in La fortune des Rougon. Le romancier s’est principalement inspiré d'un évènement survenu sept ans plus tôt, le krach de l’Union générale (1881-1882), à l'issue duquel le banquier catholique et légitimiste Eugène Bontoux est condamné à cinq ans de prison et ruiné par la baisse des actions de sa banque, qu'il avait achetées en masse, en infraction à la loi de 1856 sur les sociétés. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published The financial events of the novel are played against Saccard's personal life. Shunt, a British theatre company, in 2009 created a piece of immersive theatre loosely based on the book, called 'Money'. L'argent is a direct sequel to La curée (published in 1871), which details Saccard's first rise to wealth using underhanded methods. What I liked the most was to see Madame Caroline, after she witnessed Saccard's selfish deeds to reign over money and the pain and losses he inflicted on so many lives at the end; as much as she hates him she could stil find compassion in her heart for this man. Be the first to ask a question about L'Argent. For those new to my ever-swelling fanbase, I am reading the "Rougons-Macquart" series in its entirety, using Zola's own suggested reading order. Truly all four stories are the same. Hardly redeeming and quite grim, a world distant from the creepy incest of "The Kill", "Money" should be required reading these days as it eerily mirrors the rampant avarice which is even now destroying the world economy through speculation in abstracts. This time, the wily financier constructs an investment scheme in the Near East, creates a fortune, and then destroys through his greed and iniquity every single person around him. All good material for Zola! La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 3 septembre 2020 à 16:08. by Le Livre de Poche. England had its South-Sea bubble in the 1720s and the US it's great stock market crashes of 1929 and 2008. Because the financial world is closely linked with politics, L’argent encompasses many historical events, including: By the end of the novel, the stage is set for the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) and the fall of the Second Empire. L'Argent (1891) L'Argent : l'ascension Après avoir amassé une fortune dans le roman La Curée , deuxième volume de l'immense fresque des Rougon-Macquart d'Emile Zola, Aristide Saccard, frère de Eugène Rougon devenu ministre dans le roman précité, reviendra comme le personnage central du dix-huitième tome de la série, L'argent paru en 1891. Zola's intent was to show the terrible effects of speculation and fraudulent company promotion, the culpable negligence of company directors, and the impotency of contemporary financial laws. L'année 1889 est aussi marquée, un mois plus tard, par les spéculations d'Eugène Secrétan qui causent la faillite du Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, ancêtre de la BNP, et le suicide de son président, Eugène Denfert-Rochereau. Maybe I should stick with Zola's later Rougon-Macquart novels, because Money (L'Argent) and the Ladies' Paradise are my two favorites so far. Saccard est averti du résultat de la bataille avant tout le monde par une indiscrétion chez son frère, ministre de l'Intérieur, et en profite pour réaliser d'importants bénéfices. This is the eighteenth book in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series of twenty books and it is the thirteenth one that I have read. Les communiqués et articles de presse, les rumeurs savamment dosées font s’envoler les titres de la société. Caroline learns that Saccard fathered a son, Victor, during his first days in Paris. La victoire prussienne, imprévue mais très nette, renverse complètement la tendance sur les marchés obligataires, qui repartent très fortement à la hausse, après avoir été vendus à découvert : le 5 juillet 1866, le cours de l'emprunt français à 3 % bondit, passant de 64,40 francs à 70 francs, soit une progression de presque 10 % en une seule journée[2]. Whereas Flaubert concentrated on the nuanced intricacies of individual psyches and Balzac the complex choreography of social relations, Zola was above all interested in the nature of what we would call “modernity”-- the throbbing dynamic of his age as it emerged in everything from department stories to prostitution to coal mines. Sensing his unscrupulous nature, his brother Eugène Rougon prompts Aristide to change his surname from Rougon to Saccard. Truly all four stories are the same. Zola doesn't get under the fingernails and into the pores of his characters here like he does in other novels in the series. » Ce thème était déjà en partie abordé dans La Curée. Saccard's principal rival on the Bourse, the Jewish financier Gundermann, learns about Saccard's financial trickery and attacks, loosing stock upon the market, devaluing its price, and forcing Saccard to buy millions of shares to keep the price up. As always Zola does this almost scientifically. Tout est fait pour attirer petits et moyens épargnants, auxquels on promet des gains faciles et rapides. The novel takes place in 1864-1869, beginning a few months after the death of Saccard's second wife Renée (see La curée). Zola en livre une description haute en couleur et en personnages, complétée par la solide documentation qu'il avait amassée[1], en plaçant l'action vingt-cinq ans plus tôt, en mars 1864. The book provides fertile soil in which to question morality, given that, as the book's title suggests, this book's focus is the financial institutions of. Talk of shares and promissory notes and investments wearied me before too long and at times I forgot I was. This time, the wily financier constructs an investment scheme in the Near East, creates a fortune, and then destroys through his greed and iniquity every single person around him. In France, this peculiarly nineteenth century project was carried out successively by Balzac, Flaubert and Zola. Zola, even when describing th. Money, money, money -- it's all about the money. Harder going for me than the others I've read, which I think of as comfort reads, hence 3 stars. While Hamelin travels to Constantinople to lay the groundwork for their enterprise, the Banque Universelle goes from strength to strength. Welcome back. Saccard se retrouve à nouveau au sommet de la gloire et de la puissance… construites sur du sable, car il ne cesse d’acheter ses propres actions. It's all about greed and how it overwhelms and destroys seemingly rational-, level- headed people. Zola did a great job of presenting the theme and wrapping things up. Of the works in the Rougon-Macquart cycle I've read thus far, Money is the one that delves deepest into morality, chiefly through the character of Madame Caroline. Hamelin lives with his sister Caroline, who, against her better judgment, invests in the Banque Universelle and later becomes Saccard's mistress. Après une succession de mauvaises affaires, il doit repartir de zéro, mais son ambition est demeurée intacte. Rougon is the protagonist of Son Excellence Eugène Rougon, the events of which predate L'argent. People from all walks of life got caught up in hyper greed, and it deeply affected their lives for the worse, yet the culprits paid a very small price. Zola, whilst writing in the late 19th century, his observations of human nature and the workings of capitalism could have been written post the 2008 'great financial crash' - sadly not much has changed and history continues to repeat itself. Between them, these men spanned almost the entirety of France’s tempestuous nineteenth century. Avant Francis Scott Fitzgerald, chez qui ce sera un thème récurrent, il laisse entrevoir cette nouvelle perception bien éloignée des principes de 1789 : « Les riches sont différents. Furthermore, Saccard buys several newspapers which serve to maintain the illusion of legitimacy, promote the Banque, excite the public, and attack Rougon. "Money", the fourth novel, is about Aristide Saccard, the same Rougon from "The Kill". The irresistible power of money and love.

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