Les Valeureux

The closing novel of Albert Cohen's Solal cycle, published seventeen months after Belle du Seigneur and drawn partly from pages cut from that novel's original manuscript. Where Belle du Seigneur was tragic, Les Valeureux is warm and comic, following the five Cephalonian cousins — Saltiel, Salomon, Michael, Mattathias and Mangeclous — as they set off for Geneva in pursuit of fortune, held together by family loyalty, incompetence and Rabelaisian good humor.