Laziness in the Fertile Valley Free Download By Albert Cossery
| Title | : | Laziness in the Fertile Valley |
| Author | : | Albert Cossery |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 182 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0811218740 |
Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle slackers one and all One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal Another savagely defends the household from women Serag, the youngest, is the only member of the family interested in getting a Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle slackers one and all One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal Another savagely defends the household from women Serag, the youngest, is the only member of the family interested in getting a job But even he try as he might has a hard time resisting the call of laziness
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Albert Cossery November 3, 1913 June 22, 2008 was an Egyptian born French writer of Greek Orthodox Syrian and Lebanese descent, born in Cairo.Son of small property owners in Cairo, at the age of 17, inspired by reading Honor de Balzac, Albert Cossery Arabic emigrated to Paris He came there to continue his studies which he never did devote himself to, writing and settled perma Albert Cossery November 3, 1913 June 22, 2008 was an Egyptian born French writer of Greek Orthodox Syrian and Lebanese descent, born in Cairo.Son of small property owners in Cairo, at the age of 17, inspired by reading Honor de Balzac, Albert Cossery Arabic emigrated to Paris He came there to continue his studies which he never did devote himself to, writing and settled permanently in the French capital in 1945, where he lived until his death in 2008.In 60 years he only wrote eight novels, in accordance with his philosophy of life in which laziness is not a vice but a form of contemplation and meditation In his own words So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it At the age of 27 he published his first book, Les hommes oubli s de Dieu Men God Forgot During his literary career he became close friend of other writers and artists such as Lawrence Durrell, Albert Camus, Jean Genet and Giacometti.Cossery died on June 22, 2008, aged 94.His books, which always take place in Egypt or other Arab countries, portray the contrast between poverty and wealth, the powerful and the powerless, in a witty although dramatic way His writing mocks vanity and the narrowness of materialism and his principal characters are mainly vangrants, thieves or dandies that subvert the order of an unfair society 
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Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle slackers one and all O
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