Business is business
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| Author | Octave Mirbeau |
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| Original title | Les affaires sont les affaires |
| Country |  France |
| Language | French |
| Genre(s) | comedy |
| Publisher | Fasquelle |
| Publication date | April 1903 |
Business is business (French: Les affaires sont les affaires) is a french comedy in three acts, by the novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, performed in April 1903 on the stage of Comédie-Française, in Paris, and world-wide acclaimed, especially in Russia, Germany and United States. An English-language adaption by Sydney Grundy was produced in London in 1905.
[edit] Main character
That work is a classical comedy of manners with characters in the tradition of Molière, where Mirbeau criticizes the French society and the world of business, legal kind of gangsterism. The main character, symbolically named Isidore Lechat, is a predator without any scruples, predecessor of the modern masters of business intrigue, a "brasseur d'affaires" who is a product of the new world, a figure who makes money from everything and spreads his tentacles out over the world.
[edit] External links
- (French) Pierre Michel's foreword.
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