Mendigos y orgullosos /
A brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel but the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery's black comedy is not the cause of this death but the richness in even the most materially impoverished life. Gohar is a former professor turned beggar, whorehouse accountant, hash...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Spanish |
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[Logroño, Spain] :
Pepitas de calabaza,
[2011]
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| Edition: | Primera edición. |
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| Summary: | A brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel but the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery's black comedy is not the cause of this death but the richness in even the most materially impoverished life. Gohar is a former professor turned beggar, whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute from her miserable life. The police investigator Nour El Din, harboring a dark secret of his own, suspects all three of the brothel murder, but finds himself captivated by their warm good humor. He is drawn to these men. How is it that they live surrounded by degrading poverty, yet possess a joie de vivre that even the most assiduous forces of state cannot suppress? Do they, despite their rejection of social norms and all ambition, hold the secret of earthly contentment? |
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| Item Description: | "...mayo de 2011"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 216 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9788493834944 8493834947 |