Books: Belle du seigneur
This book’s range of themes is wild, from the vicious and hilarious pastiche of the petty bureaucracy of international organisations through the hypocrisy of Geneva polite society, the hilarious antics of Solal’s Marx Brothers-like uncles, fresh of the boat from Cephalonica, to the tenderest, most earth-shattering moments of love, the bitter self-loathing of a man who percieves the shallowness of his womanising and the shallowness of women’s attraction for him, the torture of the outcast and the first flush of european pre-war antisemitism.
