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Albert Cossery was an Egyptian-born French writer. Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country. He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile". His writings pay tribute to the humble and to the misfits of his childhood in Cairo, as well as praise a form of laziness and simplicity very distant from our contemporary society.Wikipedia →
Works
La Maison de la mort certaine
The House Of Certain Death
French · 1944Novel
1 translation
Les Fainéants dans la vallée fertile
Laziness in the Fertile Valley
French · 1948Novel
1 translation
Mendiants et Orgueilleux
Proud Beggars
French · 1955Novel
1 translation
La Violence et la Dérision
The Jokers
French · 1964Novel
1 translation
Un complot de saltimbanques
A Splendid Conspiracy
French · 1975Novel
1 translation
Les Couleurs de l'infamie
The Colors of Infamy
French · 1999Novel
1 translation