From the island woman to the underground woman. The body of the Jewish woman in Albert Cohen’s works
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This paper aims to analyze the Jewish woman in Albert Cohen’s work, focusing our attention on the descriptions of their bodies. From the beginning, the difference between the woman who lives in the island and the one who lives underground is obvious. The essentially organic, obese body of the woman islander is opposed to the deformed body of the underground woman, a deformity which symbolizes the eternal suffering of the Jewish people.
These images of the female body can be found in stories and tales from the popular Jewish tradition which, via his mother, could have nourished Albert Cohen’s imagination.
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