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Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices
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Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices, by Jack I. Abecassis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 246 pp. $45.00.
Abecassis undertakes the first book-length study in English of Albert Cohen (1895-1981), one of France's most important Jewish writers and activists of the twentieth century. Cohen's oeuvre is known by many French readers; however, it remains largely ignored in academic circles and absent from literary canons. Abecassis explains this paradox by examining the ambivalent Jewishness or "identity impasse" (p. 154) exhibited in Cohen's novels and autobiographical essays. This critic illustrates how both Cohen and his central protagonist Solal exhibit dissonant voices …
