Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen (Book Analysis)
Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including fantasy versus reality, social criticism and anti-Semitism. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 58-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Albert Cohen
- Presentation of Belle du Seigneur
- Summary of Belle du Seigneur
- Character study
- Ariane Cassandre Corisande d’Auble
- Solal of the Solals, 14th of his name
- The Deumes
- Mariette
- The Valiant
- Analysis of Belle du Seigneur
- Polyphonic narration
- The dichotomy of fiction and reality
- Criticism of society
- Zionism and anti-Semitism
About Belle du Seigneur
Belle du Seigneur is the third novel in Albert Cohen’s semi-autobiographical tetralogy about Solal of the Solals and his family. It follows Solal as he embarks on a torrid affair with Ariane d’Auble, a non-Jewish married woman, and recounts the increasingly absurd ways that the two lovers try to keep their passion from becoming stale. It was first published in French in 1968, and won the Académie française’s Grand Prix du Roman for that year. It was first translated into English in 1995, and has since been adapted into a film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Belle du Seigneur, 2013).
About Albert Cohen
Albert Cohen was born on the Greek island of Corfu in 1895, but moved to France with his parents as a child and eventually settled in Geneva, where he worked as a civil servant at the International Labour Organization. His own life experiences, and particularly his Jewish roots, had a significant influence on his published works, and many of the characters in his novels share his own beliefs, such as Zionism. Cohen worked with the Jewish Agency of Palestine from London during the Second World War, and died in Geneva in 1981.
Product details
ISBN | 9782806296443 |
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Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
Format | |
Pages | 58 |
File size | 2.2 MB |