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portada Proud Beggars
Type
Physical Book
Author
Introduction by
Translated by
Publisher
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.2x13.2x1.3 cm
Weight
0.19 kg.
ISBN13
9781590174425
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Proud Beggars

Albert Cossery (Author) · Alyson Waters (Introduction by) · Thomas W. Cushing (Translated by) · New York Review of Books · Paperback

Proud Beggars - Cossery, Albert ; Cushing, Thomas W. ; Waters, Alyson

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Synopsis "Proud Beggars"

Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery's wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery's proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer, and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute. The police investigator Nour El Dine, harboring a dark secret of his own, suspects all three of the murder but finds himself captivated by their warm good humor. How is it that they live amid degrading poverty, yet possess a joie de vivre that even the most assiduous forces of state cannot suppress? Do they, despite their rejection of social norms and all ambition, hold the secret of contentment? And so this short novel, considered one of Cossery's masterpieces, is at once biting social commentary, police procedural, and a mischievous delight in its own right.

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