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Proud Beggars (1955)

by Albert Cossery(Favorite Author)
4.01 of 5 Votes: 2
ISBN
1590174631 (ISBN13: 9781590174630)
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English
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NYRB Classics
review 1: Well done and intelligent "literary" fiction set in Egypt not long after WW2: the atomic bomb is mentioned, TV is not. Provides entree into a life very foreign to Americans, "genteel" poverty, intellect and destitution combined. A former professor, now content to take hashish and do the accounting for a brothel, murders one of the prostitutes one day, and the rest of the story revolves around that.
review 2: I really enjoyed reading that, after I've watched the film. Both are very very close and I've found the characters in the film truly matched their equivalents in the book. It's a deeply moving story and I must admit that sometimes I even identified with El Kordi, who with his ideals and unsatisfied existence reminded me of myself at a younger age......now I
... more'm becoming more and more like Gohar.......An excellent character study of the four protagonists and depiction of life in poverty by Albert Cossery. less
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