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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 067082187X
ISBN-13: 9780670821877
May 1996
Publisher: Viking Pr
974 pages
Reprint
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A satirical novel about the emptiness and materialism of middle-class life in Europe in the 1930s. A Mediterranean Jew named Solal enters into an affair with the bored wife of an official in the League of Nations, a bigoted bureaucrat. This conclusion to Cohen's trilogy won the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman and sold more than a million copies in Europe.
| Size | | Length: | 974 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 48.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...parts of [this novel] are so mawkishly terrible you wonder why the publishers haven't folded from embarrassment, while other parts are brilliantly, minutely observed, mercilessly funny, a parade of social and moral dissections that make Waugh and Montherlant look like teddy-bears."
Boston Book Review - Michael Wood
"At a time when short, small-formatted books are becoming increasingly successful, the publication of an English translation of a thousand-page novel is notable, even if it is the favorite of a generation of French baby-boomers who remember reading it breathlessly when it was published in Paris in 1968. More surprising is why this novel has remained such a beloved and unquestioned presence in French literature....Why [it] has not been taken to task by the French intelligentsia for its author's problematic representation of gender and Jews is a legitimate question....[A] profoundly disturbing novel..."
New York Times Book Review - Isabelle De Courtivron (08/25/1996)
"Satiric, digressive, meditative, didactic: Proustian indeed in its best moments....This is a great novel, and its appearance here in English translation really is, as they say, a literary event."
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