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Proud beggars

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  • "Trotse bedelaars"@en
  • "Mendiants et orgueilleux"@it

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  • "La réédition de ce roman devenu introuvable, réjouira les admirateurs de ce conteur.S'il est facile de devenir un mendiant, y joindre de l'orgueil est un raffinement rare. Gohar l'ancien prof de philo y est parvenu..."
  • ""Une adaptation du roman éponyme de l'écrivain égyptien Cossery. Dans les rues du Caire, Gohar, ex-philosophe devenu mendiant, professe avec nonchalance la non-coopération. Il sillonne les ruelles et les secrets de cette ville, croisant des figures pittoresques et exemplaires."
  • "Een vroegere docent die uit eigen keuze bedelaar is geworden, overtuigt door zijn levenswijze een rechercheur van de waarde van een bestaan onder levenslustige trotse armen."
  • ""Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery's wry black comedy is not the cause of this death, but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery's characteristically proud beggars is Gohar, 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? And so this short novel, considered one of Cossery's masterpieces, is at once biting social commentary, police procedural, and a mischievous delight in its own right"--"
  • "Dans les rues du Caire, Gohar, ex-philosophe devenu mendiant, mène une vie quotidienne rythmée par la nonchalance et la drogue. Suivi d'El Dine, un policier homosexuel, il sillonne les ruelles et les secrets de cette ville, croisant des figures pittoresques et exemplaires."
  • "Dans les rues du Caire, Gohar, ex-philosophe devenu mendiant, professe avec nonchalance la non-coopération. Il sillonne les ruelles et les secrets de cette ville, croisant des figures pittoresques et exemplaires.--[Memento]."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Mendiants et orgueilleux, roman"
  • "Siroti i gordi : roman"
  • "Mendigos y orgullosos"
  • "Mendigos y orgullosos"@es
  • "Mendiants et orgueilleux roman"
  • "Mendiants et orguelleux"
  • "Gohar der Bettler : Roman"
  • "Proud beggars"@en
  • "Gohar der Bettler Roman"
  • "Proud beggars"
  • "Proud Beggars"@en
  • "Tiggerne og de hovmodige"@da
  • "[Mendiants et orgeuilleux.] [If All Men were Beggars.] A Room in Cairo ... Translated ... by P.D. Cummins"@en
  • "[Mendiants et orgueilleux.] A room in Cairo: translated ... by P.D. Cummins"@en
  • "Mendiants et orgueilleux : [roman]"
  • "Mendiants et orgueilleux"
  • "Mendicanti e orgogliosi"
  • "Mendicanti e orgogliosi"@it
  • "A room in Cairo"@en
  • "A room in Cairo"
  • "[Mendiants et orgeuilleux.] [If All Men were Beggars.] A Room in Cairo ... Translated ... by P. D. Cummins"
  • "Mendiants et orgueilleux : roman"
  • "De trotse bedelaars : roman"
  • "De trotse bedelaars : roman"@en

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