![]() Alongside his activity at the branch of the Banque de France in Béthune (Pas-de-Calais), he blackens pages and pages on the meaning of his action until exhaustion, depression. He works to erase the debt of the poorest, helping them in many ways, which earned him to be designated by the press as “The Good Samaritan”. The character is a resistance fighter from within who crosses paths with other resistance fighters in his quest, a communist banker, another who doesn’t think the purpose of money is to crush those who don’t have it. Read also (2019): Article reserved for our subscribers Interior Caravaggio by Yannick Haenel ![]() It opens onto what the other Bataille called the real, the wound. By not leaving the economy in its place, whereas it is nevertheless everywhere, by founding gold in the literary word, it signs its death sentence, its fault, its gap. ![]() The book is filled with references to social economy, political economy, the history of the world economy, but at the same time it is so steeped in literature that it absorbs all these discourses, that it displaces them in a strongly transgressive gesture. The critique of capitalism borrows from the founding texts of Marx, Proudhon, Adam Smith or William Morris, but transfigured by poetry. ![]() ![]() Is the economy soluble in metaphysics? This is what the treasurer-paymaster, with his look both mad and wise, will seek to show, not by adhering to the prestige of money and stock market operations, but by dismantling the energy that is at heart of the system and which calls for squandering. During a student internship at the Banque de France, he felt all the symptoms of a vocation – the call, the fire, the ecstasy – and, realizing that money had put itself in the place of God, he decides to abandon philosophy studies for economics. ![]()
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