Word: quesnay
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Bernard lacks the stolidity of a true Quesnay. Yet he cannot break away from the mill because he reasons that it is a slacker to society who enjoys the privileges of his class without bearing the class responsibilities...
...BERNARD QUESNAY is the story of the enslavement of a man to his family tradition. Bernard Quesnay is a middle-class Frenchman who returns from the war to become a partner in his grandfather's cloth mills in Normandy. He is an ardent, artistic youth whose spirit revolts at the thought of spending life in bondage to industrialism...
...happens to the hero. One love-affair fizzles out, another is aborted, but these are merely by the way. When at last the formidable grandfather dies, Bernard has been in the rut too long and has forgotten his dreams. The cloth-mills are the inevitable, the Fates, to Bernard Quesnay. Their prosperity, strikes, slumps, trade-wars, absorb the hero until at last he is absorbed by the mills...
...continually remembers the power of the author of "Aried" to breathe life into his characters and superbly to relived. In comparison with "Ariel," "Bernard Quesnay" is rather weak. It is a disappointment that this novel is not more significant and fails to become more than moderately good...