Abstract

From the French

This article presents information on the works of author Jean-Richard Bloch. Bloch composes words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into chapters with all the meticulous care of a man who knows that his later compatriots from authors Gustave Flaubert to André Gide have delighted to scan a novel as narrowly as though it were a lyric. But if, on the other hand, one is thinking not of style but of theme, then the comparison is not unfitting, for "-- & Co." is concerned with author Honoréde Balzac's favorite subject, which is money, and tells a Balzacian tale of a Jewish family mastered and destroyed by its love of honest gain. The Simlers, weavers of Alsace, fled from their native province when it was annexed by the Prussians.