Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices.(Book review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices. By JACK I. ABECASSIS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. 245 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-7982-5.

Jack L. Abecassis devotes his prologue to what he rightly calls the Cohen paradox: he is 'known, read, appreciated, but deemed too disturbing for critical enquiry' (p. 1). This being the case, one can only welcome this substantial addition to the slender corpus of Cohen studies. It adopts a very Jewish focus. Of course, the symbolism of Solal's installing his gentile wife in the sunlit reception rooms of his chateau, while ...

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