by Albert Cohen · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817672801
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«Bella del Signore» is the romantic novel by Albert Cohen, published by Rizzoli in paperback (798 pages, in Italian).
Set in Geneva in the 1930s, it tells the passionate and destructive relationship between Solal, a civil servant at the League of Nations, and Ariane, a married aristocrat. Albert Cohen explores desire, vanity and the aspiration to an absolute love that clashes with everyday life, with satire of the bureaucracy and society of the time.
Third instalment of the «Les Valeureux» series; originally published in French as «Belle du Seigneur» in 1968.
For readers of classic romantic novels and interwar European literature, with an interest in psychological portraits and tragic love.
Abraham Albert Cohen was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization. He became a Swiss citizen in 1919.
