Set in Geneva in the 1930s, Albert Cohen's endlessly inventive satire of middle-class manners and ambition revolves around Solal, a man of remarkable gifts and disappointed ideals. As Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become disillusioned with a world dominated by personal and national interest. His one hope for redemption is through love, and he embarks on the seduction of the beautiful Ariane, wife of the dull-witted Adrien Deume, who works for Solal.

Belle du Seigneur

Literature & Fiction

Cohen, Albert

World Literature

The Penguin Group

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love - and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull-witted, social-climbing employee of the League. In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.

Modern Classics Her Lover (belle Du Seigneur) (Penguin Modern Classics)

Coward, David

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

The New Grove French Baroque Masters: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Couperin, Rameau (The New Grove Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Sadler, Graham

Hitchcock, H.Wiley

Higginbottom, Edward

Anthony., James

Arts & Literature

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Since their appearance in mid-1980s, wavelets and, more generally, multiscale methods have become powerful tools in mathematical analysis and in applications to numerical analysis and signal processing. This book is based on "Ondelettes et Traitement Numerique du Signal" by Albert Cohen. It has been translated from French by Robert D. Ryan and extensively updated by both Cohen and Ryan. It studies the existing relations between filter banks and wavelet decompositions and shows how these relations can be exploited in the context of digital signal processing. Throughout, the book concentrates on the fundamentals. It begins with a chapter on the concept of multiresolution analysis, which contains complete proofs of the basic results. The description of filter banks that are related to wavelet bases is elaborated in both the orthogonal case (Chapter 2), and in the biorthogonal case (Chapter 4). The regularity of wavelets, how this is related to the properties of the filters and the importance of regularity for the algorithms are the subjects of Chapter 3. Chapter 5 looks at multiscale decomposition as it applies to stochastic processing, in particular to signal and image processing.

Wavelets and Multiscale Signal Processing (Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Computation, 10)

Chapman & Hall

First published in 1968, a satirical study of middle-class manners, set against the backdrop of 1930s Geneva, focuses on Solal, a Mediterranean Jew disillusioned by his work as Under-Secretary General of the League of Nations, as he uses a love affair to search for the Absolute.

Belle du Seigneur: A Novel

Literary

Viking Adult

This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of Enlightenment with an enormous vitality. Investigating the place assigned to music in France's preeminent scientific institution, the Paris Academy, the author shows the role played by the scientific movement in the evolution of musical thought prior to the Revolution.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences: A Study in the Evolution of Musical Thought (Princeton Legacy Library)

Arts & Photography

Music

Princeton University Press

A moving memorial to his mother’s life by Albert Cohen, the internationally renowned author of Belle De Seigneur.

Book of My Mother

Community & Culture

Dufour Editions

Shortly after Albert Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis, he received news of his mother’s death in Marseille. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of moving pieces for La France libre, which later grew into Book of My Mother. Achingly honest, intimate, and moving, this love song is a tribute to all mothers. Cohen himself expressed, "I shall not have written in vain if one of you, after reading my hymn of death, is one evening gentler with his mother because of me and my mother."

History

Archipelago

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