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Belle du Seigneur
Albert Cohen · 1998 · 1000 pages
A League of Nations official has an affair with a Genevan woman through which he attempts to achieve the Absolute. A love story, it is also a satiric commentary on middle class manners.
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Nassim Taleb
“A Proust, but with a Levantine soul and personal manners, and aggressively heterosexual.”↗
