Mark Polizzotti -- translator of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet and works by Jean Echenoz, among others -- considers Extreme Indolence: On the Fiction of Albert Cossery in The Nation.
Polizzotti thinks:
Polizzotti thinks:
If ever there was a writer who deserved the judgment "You've read one, you've read 'em all," it's Cossery.I'd argue that he's still (mostly) worthwhile; see the Cossery titles under review at the complete review (the same ones Polizzotti discusses):