Proud Beggars
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781590174425 (1590174429)
Publish date: December 27th 2011
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 171
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Mystery,
France,
French Literature,
Egypt
I often wonder about sentences – about their impact, their purity, their necessity of being. I wonder about wasted words, wasted pages, and wasted stories. I wonder every time I read.Yet, whenever I reach for The Proud Beggars, I find myself in awe, mesmerized, a captive to Cossery’s mastery of lang...
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