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The jokers / Albert Cossery ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis ; introduction by James Buchan.
- Title
- The jokers / Albert Cossery ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis ; introduction by James Buchan.
- Author
- Cossery, Albert, 1913-2008.
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2605.O725 V513 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 145 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious character of unequaled incompetence who presides over the nameless Middle Eastern city where this effervescent comedy by Albert Cossery is set. The jokers are also the revolutionaries, no less bumbling and no less infatuated with the trappings of power than the government they oppose. And the jokers are Karim, Omar, Heykal, Urfy, and their friends, free spirits who see the other jokers for the jokers they are and have cooked up a sophisticated and: most important, foolproof plan to enliven public life with a dash of subversive humor. The joke is on them all. --Book Jacket.
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Violence et la derision. English
- New York Review Books classics
- Alternative Title
- Violence et la derision.
- Subject
- Government, Resistance to > Middle East > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Satire.
- Humorous fiction
- Fiction
- Satire
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781590173251 (alk. paper)
- 1590173252 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010013738
- OCLC
- 436030081
- SCSB-11427952
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library