![]() ![]() Finally, unearthed from the archives decades later, is Mildred’s unknown and unvarnished private diary. A third section is recounted by the ghostwriter of Bevel’s memoirs, Ida Partenza. ![]() This is followed by Bevel’s uncompleted autobiography, a self-congratulatory account designed to restore his reputation and rebut the calumnies about his wife, Mildred, who actually died of cancer. The first of the book’s four sections takes the form of a popular novella based on Bevel’s life, depicting the financier as an emotionally repressed numbers savant who drove his wife to madness and an agonizing death in a Swiss sanatorium. The prose are a delight, then I was pulled deeper into Trust by the subject matter, and theme of investment which is much nearer to the manipulative, and the ephemeral rather than to the truth, and though the novel is set in the early 20th century, I could not help but reflect upon the poor foundations of the present. Diaz’s method is to juxtapose competing interpretations of the life of his character Andrew Bevel, whose sensational career reached its zenith when he successfully shorted the 1929 crash, gaining hundreds of millions of dollars as well as the enmity of the public. ![]() ![]() “Trust” is a rich and prismatic-though ultimately anticlimactic-novel interested in the twin meanings of speculation, both the act of amassing wealth through the stock market and of creating stories to explain and define the past. Hernan Diazs Trust is a work of fiction that is itself comprised of four very different works existing in the world of its story. ![]()
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