Proud Beggars AUTH-5337597 LENIN GOD OF THE GODLESS

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journalist Melissa Roth investigates how societies and genetics encourage us to choose sides

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Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris

ISBN13: 9780544483880

Proud Beggars AUTH-5337597 LENIN GOD OF THE GODLESSEarly 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 proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has