as well as a poetry editor for The Massachusetts Review
Translated By Elizabeth Heighway
The author of more than twenty novels
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
Language and logic are pushed to their farthest extremes in one of Chevillard’s funniest novels yet
The Poor aphorisms as well as a poetryThe 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