Les fainéants d’Albert Cossery
The Lazy People by Albert Cossery

Author(s): Radu I. Petrescu
Subject(s): Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Albert Cossery; laziness; work; novel; banausía;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper focuses on the idiosyncratic personality of the french-speaking Egyptian novelist Albert Cossery ; besides centering on one of his most famous novels, Les fainéants dans la vallée fertile (Laziness in the Fertile Valley), we shall also venture to show some particular positions taken and significative facts in the life of this author, who remains undeservedly unknown, and whose stance against the concept of work is exemplary, through its lifelong consistency and through its utterly suprising and paradoxical succes.

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