The Poor aphorisms While lying on a beach

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

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

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

Following his short story collection

as well as a poetry editor for The Massachusetts Review

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