Books by Albert Cossery and Complete Book Reviews

Albert Cossery, Author, Alyson Waters, Translator , trans. from the French by Alyson Waters. New Directions $14.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1779-8
The idleness of young men finds devilish outlets in this queasy novel by late Egyptian author Cossery (1913–2008). A young rake, having left home six years before, ostensibly to study abroad, reluctantly returns to his un-named provincial...
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Albert Cossery, trans. from the French by William Goyen. New Directions, $13.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1874-0
Egyptian writer Albert Cossery's second novel (after The House of Certain Death), first published in 1947, provides a graceful—and comical—meditation on idleness and the art of doing nothing. Cossery takes pleasure in showing us a family obsessed...
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