24 November 2016

Cimetière du Montparnasse (continued) #9: Albert Adès


ALBERT ADÈS
1893 – 1921

SES
ADMIRATEURS
ET
SES AMIS

LES INQUIETS
1914
GOHA LE SIMPLE
1919
UN ROI TOUT NU
1922'

Albert Adès was a French-speaking Egyptian who met Albert Josipovici in 1913. He co-wrote the first two novels (concerning Egyptian life) mentioned above with Josipovici and Le Livre de Goha le simple was nominated for the Goncourt in 1919, but lost to Proust's À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. The novel was adapted into a film entitled Goha directed by Jacques Baratier in 1959 starring Omar Sharif and Claudia Cardinale.

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