Word: haverkamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will, Passion's Pilgrims) will have little difficulty in picking up the threads of the story, will be relieved to see that the parallel narratives have now begun to intertwine, making fewer different threads to follow. Mme. de Champcenais' timid affair with Sammécaud gets warmer. Haverkamp, the ambitious businessman with no resources but his brains, puts through his first big deal. Young Student Jerphanion, horrified by the Paris slums, decides to join the socialists. Murderer Quinette, still undiscovered, finds out from a detective why his crime was never reported in the newspapers...
There is Quinette and his intellectual criminality, moving in the inner circles of revolutionary intrigue. There is Sammecaue: his connivings as the representative of ruthless capitalistic monopoly and his struggle with the frigidity of his best friend's wife. Wazemmes and Haverkamp are still on the scene, wrapping their tentacles around Parisian real estate; and the sensitive liberal, Gurau, and his rationalized surrender to the corruption of the oil cartel. The two most interesting figures, however, are the young students, Jallez and Jerphanion, the one attempting to recapture the purity of his love for Helene Sigeau, and the other just...
...services to the police as informer, worms his way into the secret councils of a radical society. Politician Gurau allows himself to be persuaded by Oilman Sammécaud that being given control of a newspaper is not bribery. His mistress, Germaine, gets further entangled in the market. Realtor Haverkamp begins to get his finger in some real pies. The liberals at Sampeyre's salon talk gloomily of impending...