How I Became Stupid
Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page?s stinging satire, How I Became Stupid?a modern day Candide with a Darwin Award?like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today?s culture. So...
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Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page?s stinging satire, How I Became Stupid?a modern day Candide with a Darwin Award?like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today?s culture. So tortured is he by the depth of his perception and understanding of himself and the world around him that he vows to denounce his intelligence by any means necessary?in order to become ?stupid? enough to be a happy, functioning member of society. What follows is a dark and hilarious odyssey as Antoine tries everything from alcoholism to stock-trading in order to lighten the burden of his brain on his soul.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142004951 (0142004952)
Publish date: November 30th 2004
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
France,
French Literature
2,5 tähteä. Olen lukenut tämän pari kertaa joskus hyvin paljon nuorempana, ja joko aika on kullannut muistot tai minä olen muuttunut, koska tämä ei ollut yhtään niin hyvä kuin muistin. Ehkä kaksi ja puoli tähteä on vähän alakanttiin, mutta se oli niin kaukana odotuksista että pettymys jäi tällä kert...
Fantastic book. Made me think so much about my own existentialist problems. Do I succumb to consumerism or not? I share some judgements with Antoine.
I expected a less funny version of Apathy and Other Small Victories but I didn't expect it to be SO less funny.