Synopses & Reviews
A moving memorial to his mothers life by Albert Cohen, the internationally renowned author of Belle De Seigneur.
Synopsis
Originally published to great acclaim in France in 1954, and translated into eleven languages this is the first-ever English translation of Albert Cohen's tribute to his mother. known primarily for his baroque masterpiece, ("one of the few great post-war French novels" -- Times Literary Supplement). In 1943 he received news, in London, where he went to escape the Nazis, of his mother's death in Marseilles. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his series of articles for La France libre, which he later revised for publication as Le livre de ma mere.
About the Author
Albert Cohen was born on the island of Corfu in 1895 and emigrated to France when he was five. During the 1930s he devoted himself to writing and after the fall of France spent seven years in London. After 1952 he resumed his literary activities, determined to complete his novel-cycle begun with Solal (1930) and Mangeclous (1938) and ending with Belle du Seigneur (1968) and Les Valeureux (1969). Belle du Seigneur was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman. He died in 1981.