Solal of the Solals | |
Author: | Albert Cohen |
Translator: | Wilfrid Benson |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Publisher: | Éditions Gallimard |
Pub Date: | 1930 |
English Pub Date: | 1933 |
Pages: | 350 |
Solal of the Solals (French: '''Solal''') is a 1930 novel by the Swiss writer Albert Cohen. It was published in English in 1933. It was Cohen's first novel, and the first part in a loosely connected series of four; it was followed by Nailcruncher, Belle du Seigneur and Les Valeureux.
The book was reviewed in Time in 1933: "Publishers, like other advertisers, cry 'Wolf! Wolf!' to a semi-attentive public. ... Consequently, in those blue moons when they have something to shout about, a sharp-toothed masterpiece may slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike in many a blue moon."[1]