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Money: A New Translation
Paperback
Classic FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 4 2024
Pages: 366
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Money, always money! The sole question in this world-to have it or not to have it, to exploit or be exploited!
Aristide Saccard has rebuilt his fortune once before, carving millions from Baron Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris. Now he returns with a grander vision: the Universal Bank, an institution that will challenge the Rothschilds themselves and finance a colonial empire in the Middle East. What begins as legitimate enterprise becomes pure speculation-a fever dream where share prices climb from 500 to 3,000 francs on nothing but collective delusion.
The Bourse transforms into a temple of gambling. Fortunes materialize from confidence and evaporate with rumor. Investors mortgage their futures for paper wealth that exists only as long as others believe. Saccard's mistress watches in horror as the man she loves builds an empire on lies. Engineers see their genuine achievements perverted into speculation. Thousands of small investors risk everything on the promise of endless gains.
And then the inevitable collapse-swift, merciless, total.
Émile Zola's 1891 masterpiece, inspired by the catastrophic Union Générale crash of 1882, remains the most penetrating examination of financial capitalism ever written. Through months of research into stock exchange mechanics, Zola anatomized how markets become unmoored from reality, how gambling fever seduces even rational minds, how the human cost of financial crisis crushes those least able to bear it.
Prophetic of every subsequent crash-1929, 2008, and beyond-Money refuses easy moralizing. Saccard is simultaneously visionary and charlatan, creator and destroyer. His speculation does build railroads, does finance development, does unleash productive forces. But at what cost? And for whose benefit?
The eighteenth volume of the Rougon-Macquart cycle-where Zola transforms financial mechanisms into moral drama and market crashes into human tragedy.
Essential reading for understanding the forces that still shape our world.
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