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Albert Cohen, Novelist of Totality
Albert Cohen is most often considered a French writer, though he was born an Ottoman citizen and became a naturalized Swiss citizen. He is the author of a masterpiece that brought him fame late in life: Belle du Seigneur (1968). He died on October 17, 1981, forty years ago. This anniversary is an opportunity to revisit in K., thanks to Maxime Decout — the author of Albert Cohen. Les Fictions de la judéité — the figure of the man who was the representative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine before devoting himself essentially to his work, in which lyricism and an extraordinary narrative invention are combined – not to mention a powerful reflection on Jewishness and Judaism.