To have your philosophy in life be "laziness" and "contemplation" to the point of loving sleep excessively is one of the wondrous things one could ponder for a long time. This is what motivates us to look at the global literary figure who was a lover of laziness and its philosophy.

The Egyptian-French writer Albert Cossery owned this philosophy. He has a famous saying: "How unfortunate it is to wake up every morning." Paradoxically, he once apologized for accepting a literary award because the ceremony was scheduled for ten o'clock in the morning.

According to his view and personal conviction, the lazy person is the only one who has the time to contemplate life and talk about it without caring about time, unlike those he described as prisoners of modernity who pant like "obedient bulls" in the wheel of work, chasing the illusions of money and possession throughout their short lives.

Albert Cossery said in the introduction to his novel "Ambition in the Desert" when asked why he writes: "So that the person who reads me today cannot work tomorrow." This state of praising laziness was part of Albert's personal makeup and was passed on to his characters. Despite living in France, his novels were written from memory and imagination, recalling places in Egypt and the movement of people, and he wrote in French.

Born Albert Cossery in 1913 in the Faggala neighborhood of Cairo to Egyptian parents of Levantine origin, his family was wealthy. He served in the merchant navy between 1939 and 1943, allowing him to visit many places, and settled in France in 1945. When asked about happiness, he would say: "To be alone."

Cossery lived in a room at the "La Louisiane" hotel in Paris for 63 years without interruption, as a "hereditary unemployed" person, observing people and objects until he became a philosopher of laziness. He died in that hotel room on June 22, 2008, at the age of 94. His most prominent works include "The House of Certain Death" and "Proud Beggars."