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Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices
Jack I. Abecassis
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Description for Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices
Hardback. Providing close readings and imaginative analyses of the entire literary output of one of twentieth-century France's most important Jewish writers, Abecassis presents here a major work of literary scholarship, as well as a broader study of the reception and influence of Jewish thought in French literature and philosophy. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
A major figure in twentieth-century letters, Albert Cohen (1895-1981) left a paradoxical legacy. His heavily autobiographical, strikingly literary, and polyphonic novels and lyrical essays are widely read by a devout public in France, yet have been largely ignored by academia. A self-consciously Jewish writer and activist, Cohen remained nevertheless ambivalent about Judaism. His self-affirmation as a Jew in juxtaposition with his satirical use of anti-Semitic stereotypes still provokes unease in both republican France and institutional Judaism. In Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices, the first English-language study of this profound and profoundly misunderstood writer, Jack I. Abecassis traces the recurrent ... Read more
A major figure in twentieth-century letters, Albert Cohen (1895-1981) left a paradoxical legacy. His heavily autobiographical, strikingly literary, and polyphonic novels and lyrical essays are widely read by a devout public in France, yet have been largely ignored by academia. A self-consciously Jewish writer and activist, Cohen remained nevertheless ambivalent about Judaism. His self-affirmation as a Jew in juxtaposition with his satirical use of anti-Semitic stereotypes still provokes unease in both republican France and institutional Judaism. In Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices, the first English-language study of this profound and profoundly misunderstood writer, Jack I. Abecassis traces the recurrent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801879821
SKU
V9780801879821
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About Jack I. Abecassis
Jack I. Abecassis is a professor of romance languages and literatures at Pomona College.
Reviews for Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices
One can only welcome this substantial addition to the slender corpus of Cohen studies.
David L. Parris Modern Language Review 2006 An overdue addition to French and Jewish Studies and would work well in courses that deal with Jewish identity, antisemitism and the Holocaust in France, and multicultural literature, as well as performance studies, citizenship, and writing from 'the ... Read more
David L. Parris Modern Language Review 2006 An overdue addition to French and Jewish Studies and would work well in courses that deal with Jewish identity, antisemitism and the Holocaust in France, and multicultural literature, as well as performance studies, citizenship, and writing from 'the ... Read more