The Poor aphorisms While lying on a beach

While lying on a beach in Greece with an accommodating female companion

Writers exposes a chaotic reality in which self expression elicits repercussions both absurd and frighteningly familiar

Language and logic are pushed to their farthest extremes in one of Chevillard’s funniest novels yet

Following his short story collection

The Poor aphorisms While lying on a beachThe 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