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Turcaret

Alain-René Lesage

出版	Bloomsbury Academic, 1989
主題	Drama / GeneralDrama / European / General
ISBN	09482301859780948230189
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TNXwAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Fraud, theft, extortion and sexual corruption: a society which sells off and farms out the power of taxation into private hands reaps its own harvest. Not a future nightmare but a classic 18th century French comedy. When Louis XIV's coffers were empty and the state machinery colluded with its tax gatherers to defraud itself, financiers made tremendous fortunes. Turcaret is one of these men - fingers in all monetary pies, legitimate and illegitimate, specuating wildly to increase his fortunes, loaning money at usurious rates, at the same time aspiring towards respectability through marriage and nobility.