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Oeuvres: Paroles juives / Solal / Mangeclous / Le Livre de ma mère / Ezechiel / Les Valeureux / O vous, Frères humains / Carnets 1978
Ce second - et dernier - volume des uvres d'Albert Cohen dans la Pléiade permet au lecteur de retrouver l'univers de Solal et de Belle du Seigneur.Premier élément de l'édifice, Solal paraît en 1930. En 1938, Mangeclous est présenté par l'auteur comme le deuxième volume d'une série qui s'intitulerait Solal et les Solal et dont le troisième volume, alors en préparation, est annoncé sous le titre de Belle du Seigneur. En 1968 paraît enfin Belle du Seigneur, suivi dix-sept mois plus tard des Valeureux. Ces deux derniers volumes ne devaient en former qu'un. C'est à la demande de son éditeur qu'Albert Cohen scinde l'ouvrage en deux livres indépendants.Centrale dans l' uvre d'Albert Cohen et chère à l'écrivain - qui aimait à raconter comment l'histoire de Solal avait d'abord été dictée à une «merveilleuse amie» pour lui plaire - la geste de Solal atteint à la grandeur par son mépris des limites. Principal acteur d'une histoire qui n'a ni commencement ni fin, Solal a la beauté insolente des héros d'Homère, lui qui peut mourir et se lever et qui, reprenant le départ, a le pouvoir de regarder le soleil
1456 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1979
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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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October 5, 2015
good, a vision of the regrets of a son. Notably a sacrifice of a mother
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