Idiocy - Pierre Guyotat Stanley Donwood First Reformed

First Reformed

While The Open Road can be read as loosely strung entertainment

Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign

'She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century'--Michele Roberts

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Idiocy - Pierre Guyotat Stanley Donwood First ReformedIdiocy by Pierre Guyotat, translated by Peter Behrman De Sinty 208 page paperback published in 2025 by NYRB ISBN 9781681379197 *** An audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: breaking from his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, deserting the French military during the Algerian War. Pierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary