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  • Mercadet
  • Written by author Honore de Balzac
  • Published by Kessinger Publishing Company, December 2009
  • Mercadet, a comedy in three acts by Honore de Baizac, tells the story of two days in the life of Mercadet, a 19th century Parisian trying to avoid his creditors. This play is typical of Balzac's work, with a fascinating hero-villain who manipulates
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Mercadet, a comedy in three acts by Honore de Baizac, tells the story of two days in the life of Mercadet, a 19th century Parisian trying to avoid his creditors. This play is typical of Balzac's work, with a fascinating hero-villain who manipulates the stock market.

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Best known for his epic series, La Comedie humaine, Balzac dabbled in the theater. Sadly always debt-ridden, he found playwriting did not pay nearly as much or as quickly as novel writing, so he abandoned the stage. At his death in 1850, the incredibly prolific writer--La Comedie humaine consists of 91 stories and novels--left only five complete plays. Of these, "Mercadet", which wasn't produced in Balzac's lifetime, is the best known, mostly because Samuel Beckett may have based his ever-absent Godot on a minor character in "Mercadet" named Godeau. This obscurity is a shame because "Mercadet" is a charming, likable, if rather light, comedy. True, its plot sounds like a bad sitcom episode: manipulative, money-mad financier Mercadet spins an ever more complicated net of lies to separate investors from their money and gets tangled in the web himself. The play is redeemed, however, by Balzac's gift for creating interesting, original, multilayered characters. In this edition, Robert Cornthwaite's translation is graceful and witty enough to make even the most time-worn plot twists seem fresh.


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