Albert Cohen, Novelist of Totality
Albert Cohen is most often considered a French writer, although he was born an Ottoman citizen and was naturalized Swiss. He died on October 17,...
Maxime Decout
Maxime Decout is a researcher in literature and essayist. He is the author of Albert Cohen. Les Fictions de la judéité (Classique Garnier) and Écrire la judéité. Enquête sur un malaise dans la littérature française (Champ Vallon, 2014). For Editions de Minuit, he published Qui a peur de l’imitation? (2017), Pouvoirs de l’imposture (2018) and Eloge du mauvais lecteur (2021)
Articles by Maxime Decout
Jean Améry: Melancholy of the European Spirit
Fifty-five years ago, in 1966, Jean Améry published 'At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities'. In the preface he...