Albert Cohen
Swiss novelist, poet and playwright of Sephardic Jewish origin who wrote in French; best known for the novels Solal and Belle du Seigneur, exploring love, identity and antisemitism.
Books
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1. Bella Del Señor
A charismatic Jewish diplomat at the League of Nations embarks on an intense, all-consuming affair with a beautiful married woman; the novel traces their delirious courtship, sexual excess and mounting jealousy, showing how passion, pride and social hypocrisy gradually corrode the lovers and the bureaucratic world around them, while satirically probing questions of identity, love, loneliness and the limits of devotion.
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2. Bella Del Signore
A charismatic League of Nations official falls into an all-consuming, idealized affair with a beautiful married woman in Geneva; their passionate embrace, played out against a backdrop of petty diplomacy, social hypocrisy and latent antisemitism, moves between exuberant comedy and devastating tragedy as love’s intensity exposes obsessive jealousy, wounded pride and the impossibility of reconciling private desire with public life.