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Albert Cossery

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
November 02 1913
Died
2121 06 20082008
Albert Cossery 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 Honoré de Balzac, Albert Cossery 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 oubliés de Dieu . 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.

Albert Cossery

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
November 02 1913
Died
2121 06 20082008
Albert Cossery 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 Honoré de Balzac, Albert Cossery 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 oubliés de Dieu . 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.

Books from Albert Cossery

The Jokers

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Colors of Infamy

4/5 ( ratings)

Men God Forgot

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Splendid Conspiracy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Les Fainéants dans la vallée fertile

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Mendigos e altivos

4.3/5 ( ratings)

منزل الموت الأكيد

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Uma Ambição no Deserto

4/5 ( ratings)

Conversas com Albert Cossery

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Mendiants et Orgueilleux

4/5 ( ratings)

Œuvres complètes, tome I

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Mennesker glemt af Gud

4.3/5 ( ratings)

ألوان العار: الرواية المصورة

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Proud Beggars

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Les affamés ne rêvent que de pain / Danger de la fantaisie

4.3/5 ( ratings)
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