Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under Secretary General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull witted, social climbing employee of the League. In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds and has translated many books from French for Penguin Classics.
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