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How I Became Stupid

How I Became Stupid

Page, Martin

Paperback

HumorLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0142004952
ISBN13: 9780142004951
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Nov 30 2004
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.04
Language: English
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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