Showing posts with label Cossery (Albert). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cossery (Albert). Show all posts
28 January 2018

Albert Cossery: Une ambition dans le désert (1984)

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Une ambition dans le désert  is a gem from Albert Cossery, and I can only describe it as an anarchist rant thinly hidden within a kind ...
8 October 2015

Paris 2015: Georges Moustaki, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise #2

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The grave of Georges Moustaki (1933–2013), still almost hidden by floral tributes more than two years after his death. Moustaki was b...
5 February 2015

Albert Cossery: Mendiants et orgueilleux | Proud Beggars (1955; repr. Joëlle Losfeld 1999)

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Préface de Roger Grenier Nouvelle édition augmentéé et enrichie This book is something of an Albert Cossery feast because  Mendia...
27 December 2014

Albert Cossery: Les Couleurs de l'infamie | The Colors of Infamy (1999)

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I moved straight from Albert Cossery's first book of short stories to his last novel, mainly to gauge the difference. Les Couleurs d...
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Albert Cossery: Les Hommes oubliés de Dieu | Men God Forgot (1941; rep. 2004)

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In 1931 Albert Cossery published his first book, Les Morsures : he was eighteen years old and it was a collection of poetry inspired by ...
3 November 2014

Frédéric Andrau: Monsieur Albert: Cossery, une vie (2013)

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An old man sits in front of Saint-Sulpice fountain, perhaps in the middle or at the end of his daily walk: starting from his hotel La L...
11 October 2014

Albert Cossery: Un complot de saltimbanques | A Splendid Conspiracy (1975)

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Albert Cossery (1913–2008), whose grave I photographed below, was an Egyptian-born French-speaking writer who lived a long life but onl...
10 October 2014

Albert Cossery: Cimetière du Montparnasse #18

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'ALBERT COSSERY 1913 . 2008' This then is the grave of Albert Cossery, although it's really just a slab of concre...