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Albert Cohen
Albert Cohen was a Swiss diplomat and novelist best known for his 1968 book Belle du Seigneur. His writing examines the intensity of romantic obsession and the social hierarchies of the early twentieth century. He
Les Valeureux
Synopsis
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.