@ARTICLE{Kaczmarek-Wiśniewska_Anna_Désir_2020, author={Kaczmarek-Wiśniewska, Anna}, number={No 2}, pages={186-194}, journal={Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski}, abstract={The paper discusses two characters of speculators as shown in two 19th century novels. Zola’s Aristide Saccard incarnates fever, chaos and prodigality of a provincial who has become a millionaire pursuing his dream of fortune. Guy de Maupassant’s William Andermatt is a banker whose extraordinary capacity of making money is based on rationalism, cold calculation and exceptional intuition. Despite all the differences, they both embody three basic features of a businessman: desire, will and power.}, type={Article}, title={Désir souverain, volonté de fer, puissance de manipulation : les personnages des spéculateurs chez Zola et Maupassant}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/117057/PDF/2020-02-KNEO-05-Kaczmarek-Wisniewska.pdf}, doi={10.24425/kn.2020.133960}, keywords={Zola, Maupassant, money, speculator, business}, }