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A Splendid Conspiracy

English

By (author): Albert Cossery

Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as study), our hero Teymourin the opening line of A Splendid Conspiracyis feeling as unlucky as a flea on a bald mans head. Poor Teymour sits forlorn in a provincial café, a far cry from his beloved Paris. Two old friends, however, rescue him. They applaud his phony diploma as perfect in a world where everything is false and they draw him into their hedonistic rounds as gentlemen of leisure. Life, they explain, while essentially pointless is extremely interesting.  The small city may seem tedious, but there are women to seduce, powerful men to tease, and also strange events: rich notables are disappearing.

Eyeing the machinations of our three pleasure seekers and nervous about the missing rich men, the authorities soon seein complex schemes to bed young girlssigns of political conspiracies. The three young men, although mistaken for terrorists, enjoy freedom, wit, and romance. After all, though not every man is capable of appreciating what is around him, the conspirators in pleasure certainly do. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 230g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 14 May 2010
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811217798

About Albert Cossery

Albert Cossery (19132008) was an Egyptian-born French novelist. Among his works are The Colors of Infamy A Splendid Conspiracy and The House of Certain Death all published by New Directions. Alyson Waters teaches at Yale and won a PEN Translation Fund Award prize for her translation of Albert Cosserys The Colors of Infamy.

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