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Écrits d'Angleterre
On sait que, des juin 1940, Albert Cohen rejoignit l'Angleterre pour continuer la lutte contre l'Allemagne nazie. Installé à Londres, il deviendra, en 1945, conseiller juridique du Comité intergouvernemental pour les refugiés. Le présent volume réunit trois textes de cette période :
- Angleterre, un hymne superbe a la grandeur de ce pays qui a porté de façon admirable l'esprit de résistance durant les années de guerre ;
- Churchill d'Angleterre, portrait inspiré et lyrique du vieux lion et des années de combat ;
- le texte intégral d'une conférence prononcée à Genève en janvier 1949 sur L'Organisation internationale pour les refugiés et la protection juridique et politique.
Magnifiques textes littéraires, dignes des meilleures pages romanesques d'Albert Cohen, ces Écrits d'Angleterre étaient devenus introuvables depuis de nombreuses années.
- Angleterre, un hymne superbe a la grandeur de ce pays qui a porté de façon admirable l'esprit de résistance durant les années de guerre ;
- Churchill d'Angleterre, portrait inspiré et lyrique du vieux lion et des années de combat ;
- le texte intégral d'une conférence prononcée à Genève en janvier 1949 sur L'Organisation internationale pour les refugiés et la protection juridique et politique.
Magnifiques textes littéraires, dignes des meilleures pages romanesques d'Albert Cohen, ces Écrits d'Angleterre étaient devenus introuvables depuis de nombreuses années.
92 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2002
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Albert Cohen
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Born Abraham Albert Cohen in Corfu, Greece, in 1895, as part of an important Sephardic Jewish community on the island. Albert’s parents, who owned a soap factory, moved to Marseille, France when he was a child. Albert Cohen discusses this period in his novel Le livre de ma mère (The Book of my Mother). He studied at a private Catholic school. In 1904, he started high school at Lycée Thiers, and graduated in 1913.
In 1914, he left Marseille for Geneva, Switzerland and enrolled in Law school. He graduated from Law School in 1917 and enrolled in Literature School in 1917 until 1919. In 1919, He became a Swiss citizen. That same year he married Elisabeth Brocher. In 1921, they gave birth to a daughter, Myriam. In 1924 his wife died of cancer. In 1925, Albert became director of Revue Juive (The Jewish Review), a periodical whose writers include Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. From 1926 to 1931, he served as a civil servant in Geneva. In 1931 He married his second wife, Marianne Goss.
During the German occupation, in 1940, Albert fled to Bordeaux, then to London. The Jewish Agency for Palestine then made him responsible to establish 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.
Born Abraham Albert Cohen in Corfu, Greece, in 1895, as part of an important Sephardic Jewish community on the island. Albert’s parents, who owned a soap factory, moved to Marseille, France when he was a child. Albert Cohen discusses this period in his novel Le livre de ma mère (The Book of my Mother). He studied at a private Catholic school. In 1904, he started high school at Lycée Thiers, and graduated in 1913.
In 1914, he left Marseille for Geneva, Switzerland and enrolled in Law school. He graduated from Law School in 1917 and enrolled in Literature School in 1917 until 1919. In 1919, He became a Swiss citizen. That same year he married Elisabeth Brocher. In 1921, they gave birth to a daughter, Myriam. In 1924 his wife died of cancer. In 1925, Albert became director of Revue Juive (The Jewish Review), a periodical whose writers include Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. From 1926 to 1931, he served as a civil servant in Geneva. In 1931 He married his second wife, Marianne Goss.
During the German occupation, in 1940, Albert fled to Bordeaux, then to London. The Jewish Agency for Palestine then made him responsible to establish 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.
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