Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801879821
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; General; Cohen, Albert,; Biography & Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Biography/Autobiography; Jewish; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; 1895-; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: The Jewish adolescent rite of passage, or bar ("to be worthy of") mitzvah ("commandment"), signifies individuation vis-a-vis parents and integration into a community.