Language and logic are pushed to their farthest extremes in one of Chevillard’s funniest novels yet
Following his short story collection
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
While lying on a beach in Greece with an accommodating female companion
This masterpiece of pre-punk aesthetics critiques the hypocrisy and consumerism of modern culture while spoofing the "typical" maladjusted family
The Poor aphorisms Language and logic are pushedThe 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