Cuando apareci\u00f3 Solal, la primera novela de Albert Cohen, el \u00e9xito fue inmediato y la cr\u00edtica francesa le salud\u00f3 como un escritor extraordinario, a pesar de la novedad y complejidad de su propuesta narrativa. \u00ab\u00bfYa hab\u00e9is le\u00eddo Solal? \u00c9sta es la pregunta que hago en estos d\u00edas a quienquiera que encuentre. Solal es un gran libro, una obra poderosa y rica\u00bb, escribi\u00f3 Marcel Pagnol, quien reconoci\u00f3 en su protagonista a \u00abuna especie de Julien Sorel, pero much\u00edsimo m\u00e1s loco\u00bb.En ella aparec\u00edan por primera vez sus inolvidables personajes: el joven Solal y sus atrabiliarios y desternillantes \u00abEsforzados\u00bb, Saltiel, Comeclavos, Salomon, Micha\u00ebl, Mattathias. Tambi\u00e9n sus grandes temas: la b\u00fasqueda del Absoluto a trav\u00e9s del amor, los juegos de seducci\u00f3n con reglas refinadas hasta el delirio, el tormento de los celos, la muerte; la omnipresencia del juda\u00edsmo: Solal, en una fulgurante carrera, pasa de la efervescencia resignada del ghetto a las intrigas sociopol\u00edticas del mundo occidental, para volver luego a los or\u00edgenes en una suerte de descenso a los infiernos.El talento literario de Albert Cohen se ver\u00e1 confirmado por las cr\u00edticas a las traducciones al ingl\u00e9s y al alem\u00e1n de Solal, que se efectuaron de inmediato.As\u00ed, en Los Angeles Times se le llam\u00f3 \u00abel Balzac del juda\u00edsmo\u00bb, en el New York Times se afirm\u00f3 que la novela combinaba \u00abla fuerza generosa y la t\u00e9cnica de Joyce, la opulencia b\u00e1rbara de Rabelais y las espl\u00e9ndidas inverosimilitudes de Las mil y una noches\u00bb, mientras que en el londinense Observer se evocaba \u00abel rudo vigor de Rabelais, la sensualidad de D. H. Lawrence\u00bb, y en el Times se constataba que \u00abSolal ha sido proclamado, por los cr\u00edticos de Europa y Am\u00e9rica, un gran libro, una obra maestra\u00bb.Tambi\u00e9n en Alemania se desbord\u00f3 el entusiasmo. Sirva como ejemplo la siguiente cr\u00edtica: \u00abCon Solal, la novela contempor\u00e1nea se despierta a una nueva vida, de una originalidad absoluta\u00bb, en la que aparecen \u00abescenas comparables a las m\u00e1s poderosas de Shakespeare, tan densas, tan crudas, tan aut\u00e9nticas, que dan cuerpo a verdades tan profundas que la vida real dif\u00edcilmente puede igualarlas\u00bb (Vossische Zeitung). Muchos a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, Bella del Se\u00f1or confirm\u00f3 apote\u00f3sicamente todas las profec\u00edas sobre las capacidades literarias de Albert Cohen y lo instal\u00f3 sin discusiones entre los grandes novelistas del siglo XX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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