The beauty of the Lord

The Lord's Beauty (Original : Belle du Seigneur) is a novel by the Swiss writer Albert Cohen , which was published in 1968 as the third volume of a novel tetralogy by Gallimard in Paris and in the same year received the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française .

The League of Nations Palace in Geneva is an important point of reference and description of the novel

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The novel revolves around the two main characters Solal des Solal, a Sephardic undersecretary to the League of Nations in Geneva , and Ariane d'Auble, the daughter of a Protestant patrician family from Geneva. The hero of the novel was born on the Greek island of Corfu , later settled in France to work in Geneva for the newly founded League of Nations from the 1920s. While Ariane d'Auble comes from the Calvinist patrician milieu of Geneva and leads a lonely life as the housewife of a Belgian work colleague Solal des Solals in an elegant villa in Cologny near Geneva.

The main motifs of the novel are the extramarital love affair between the two main characters as well as extensive milieu studies on Geneva in the 1930s, the emergence of totalitarian regimes in Europe and Jewish life on the continent before the Holocaust .

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1. ↑ Michael Kleeberg: A Sephardic Don Juan . August 11, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed July 24, 2019]).
2. ↑ Andreas Isenschmid: Novel "The Lord's Beauty": Long live France! In: The time . May 25, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 24, 2019]).
3. ↑ Albert Cohen: The Lord's Beauty. Novel. Retrieved July 24, 2019 . 
4. ^ "Belle du Seigneur", d'Albert Cohen, ou l'amour au très long cours . November 9, 1968 ( lemonde.fr [accessed July 24, 2019]).