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Abraham Albert Cohen (Greek: Αβραάμ Αλμπέρ Κοέν) was born in Corfu, Greece, in 1895, to Greek Jewish parents.
(Modern European novel set in 1930s Geneva. A sprawling, b...)
Modern European novel set in 1930s Geneva. A sprawling, baroque satire of middle-class mores and labyrinthine global politics. Won the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman in 1968.
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Solennels parmi les couples sans amour, ils dansaient, d'eux seuls préoccupés, goûtaient l'un à l'autre, soigneux, profonds, perdus. Béate d'être tenue et guidée, elle ignorait le monde, écoutait le bonheur dans ses veines, parfois s'admirant dans les hautes glaces des murs, élégante, émouvante, exceptionnelle, femme aimée, parfois reculant la tête pour mieux le voir qui lui murmurait des merveilles point toujours comprises, car elle le regardait trop, mais toujours de toute son âme approuvées, qui lui murmurait qu'ils étaient amoureux, et elle avait alors un impalpable rire tremblé, voilà, oui, c'était cela, amoureux, et il lui murmurait qu'il se mourait de baiser et bénir les longs cils recourbés, mais non pas ici, plus tard, lorsqu'ils seraient seuls, et alors elle murmurait qu'ils avaient toute la vie, et soudain elle avait peur de lui avoir déplu, trop sûre d'elle, mais non, ô bonheur, il lui souriait et contre lui la gardait et murmurait que tous les soirs ils se verraient.»Ariane devant son seigneur, son maître, son aimé Solal, tous deux entourés d'une foule de comparses : ce roman n'est rien de moins que le chef-d' uvre de la littérature amoureuse de notre époqu
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Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love - and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull-witted, social-climbing employee of the League. In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.
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(Folio. 1998. 18 cm. 1109 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda...)
Folio. 1998. 18 cm. 1109 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma francés. Contiene estuche .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. Cubierta deslucida.
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Abraham Albert Cohen (Greek: Αβραάμ Αλμπέρ Κοέν) was born in Corfu, Greece, in 1895, to Greek Jewish parents.
He studied at a private Catholic school. In 1904, he started high school at Lycée Thiers, and graduated in 1913. He graduated from Law School in 1917 and enrolled in Literature School in 1917, where he remained until 1919.
He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization. He became a Swiss citizen in 1919. Albert’s parents, who owned a soap factory, moved to Marseille, France when he was a child.
In 1914, he left Marseille for Geneva, Switzerland, and enrolled in Law school.
In 1919, he became a Swiss citizen. In 1925, Albert Cohen became director of Revue Juive (The Jewish Review), a periodical whose writers included Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud.
From 1926 to 1931, he served as a civil servant in Geneva. During the German occupation, in 1940, Cohen fled to Bordeaux, then to London.
The Jewish Agency for Palestine then made him responsible for establishing contacts with exiled governments.
On January 10, 1943, Cohen’s mother died in Marseille. That same year, he met his future third wife, Bella Berkowich. In 1944, he became an attorney for the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees.
In 1947, Cohen returned to Geneva.
In 1957, he turned down the post of Israeli Ambassador in order to pursue his literary career. He is buried in the Jewish Cemetery of Veyrier, near Geneva.
Through four different books, Cohen"s fiction can be considered as one long autobiographical fiction. lieutenant is the story of the radiant Solal - Cohen"s double - the handsome and successful civil servant of the League of Nations whose charismatic identity is a constant struggle between his Jewish roots and his social status.
His masterpiece, Belle du Seigneur, originally included the novel that was later published as Les Valeureux.
Belle du Seigneur is called "the book of love", and tells Solal"s passionate, cruel yet realistic love affair with Ariane Deume - a married non-Jewish woman. Since then, the novel has been one of the biggest sellers of the prestigious Gallimard White Collection.
(Solennels parmi les couples sans amour, ils dansaient, d'...)
(Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position...)
(Modern European novel set in 1930s Geneva. A sprawling, b...)
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