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How many of us have encountered someone very well off financially and yet cheaper than dirt? I've met my fair share of these people and it is with this type, the miser, that Molière is concerned in this work. I pictured the typical pop culture depiction of Dickens' Ebeneezer Scrooge when reading the story about the ever so miserly Harpagon, a man who cares more about his écus, which he never spends, than his family or anything else in the world, for that matter. Harpagon is undoubtedly a caricature, like so many characters sketched by Molière, and the conflicts that he encounters could not be any more hilarious, using many comedic elements that are still employed to this day (the servant with his hand held out for a tip when his master puts his hand in his pocket only to produce from it a handkerchief; double entendres galore; amplified suspicions, as when the police commissioner asks Harpagon whom he suspects of stealing his money and he replies, "Everyone"). There is nothing very sophisticated about this work, but it is extremely entertaining and is an interesting study in avarice with an ending that resolves in a way not dissimilar from many of Shakespeare's comedies or from some of Moliere's earlier works. Its great strength lies in its timelessness.

LAvare is a play about a miserly old man. Its intelligent and very funny. I thoroughly enjoyed it.Cest la première fois pour moi de lire Molière, ou plutôt une classique française. Puisque le français est une langue étrangère pour moi, cétait un peu difficile particulièrement initialement. Mais je cois que jen a beaucoup profité pour réviser la langue et mamuser. LAvare est une pièce très intelligente et drôle. Il y a ironie, psychologie et une coupe de théâtre génialement imprévu. Bien sûr, je souhaiterais encore lire cette pièce et aussi les autres écrit par Molière.