Writers exposes a chaotic reality in which self expression elicits repercussions both absurd and frighteningly familiar
He is the author of three novels as well as books on Jean Genet (translated as The Last Genet: A Writer in Revolt) and Marcel Duchamp
as well as a poetry editor for The Massachusetts Review
Language and logic are pushed to their farthest extremes in one of Chevillard’s funniest novels yet
While lying on a beach in Greece with an accommodating female companion
The Poor aphorisms Writers exposes a chaotic realityThe Poor (Os Pobres, 1906), by Portuguese author Raul Brando, is a powerful tribute to the underclasses. Inno vative thematically and stylistically, the novel consists of loosely connected vignettes on two narrative levels: the lives of prostitutes, where the inexorable need for love is transformed into a means for survival; and the life of Gebo, a seemingly slovenly man, with neither sentiment nor intelligence. The Poor (Os Pobres, 1906), by