Albert Cohen

Albert Cohen (1895-1981) was born on the Greek island of Corfu into a Romaniote Jewish family and grew up in Marseille, France. He studied law in Geneva and later worked for the International Labour Organization, an experience that informed his satirical depictions of international bureaucracy. His life was marked by the displacement and persecution that shaped the Jewish experience in twentieth-century Europe, and his fiction returns obsessively to questions of Jewish identity, social belonging, and the search for love as a refuge from a hostile world. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Her Lover.