Title: Albert Cohen : dissonant voices /
Authors: Abecassis, Jack I., 1959-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Cohen, Albert, Criticism and interpretation.; Cohen, Albert, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: "A major figure in twentieth-century letters, Albert Cohen (1895-1981) left a paradoxical legacy. His heavily autobiographical, strikingly literary, and polyphonic novels and lyrical essays are widely read by a devoted public in France, yet have been largely ignored by academia." "In the first English-language study of this profound and profoundly misunderstood writer, Jack I. Abecassis traces the recurrent themes of Cohen's works. He reveals the dissonant fractures marking Cohen as a modernist, and analyzes the resistance to his work as a symptom of the will not to understand Cohen's main theme: "the catastrophe of being Jewish.""