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Résumé :
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Maybe the reason Albert Cossery’s work has never received much attention, particularly in English, was that the author himself never paid much attention to writing, or to work of any kind. When he moved to Paris permanently in 1945 from his native city of Cairo, he checked into a hotel room on the Left Bank and stayed there for the rest of his life. He spent his days sleeping until noon and strolling about, or sitting in cafes with Jean Genet, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. In an interview with Banipal from the last years of his life, Cossery said “I write when I have nothing better to do, or in other words when I am bored.” Proud Beggars is often spoken of as the masterpiece of Cossery’s eight-novel oeuvre, but since 1981 it has been out of print in English. Now it is being published again, thirty years later, with a new translation.
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