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How I Became Stupid
[Paperback - 2004]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Humorous Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780142004951 | Pages: 176
Shipping Weight: .142 | Dimensions: 5.1 x .47 x 7.1 inches

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.

French writer Martin Page is the author of the bestselling novel, How I Became Stupid, which won the Euroregional schools’ literature prize, an award given by Belgian, Dutch and German students. His novels have been translated in a dozen languages. He also writes for children (I am an earthquake, Conversation with a chocolate cake…).He is a recipient of the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship. He lives in Paris.

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