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My stupid intentions / Bernardo Zannoni ; translated from the Italian by Alex Andriesse.

by Zannoni, Bernardo, 1995-

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The New York Review of Books, 2023.

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9781681377285 (trade pbk.)

Miei stupidi intenti. English

211 p. ; 22 cm.

"Originally published in the Italian language as I miei stupdi intenti."--T.p. verso.

"My Stupid Intentions is the autobiography of a beech marten named Archy. Born into poverty, maimed by an accident, he is sold into servitude by his mother and taught to read and write by Solomon--a pawnbroking fox whose knowledge derives from a Bible that fell on his head while he was busy feeding on a hanged man. Even as Archy's life is transformed by his discovery of the written word and his grappling with the entity called God, he longs for an existence guided by instinct. He longs to be "a real animal." But there is no way of unlearning what he has learned. Caught between his natural urges and his acquired knowledge, he seeks the meaning of his story by writing it. This debut novel by the young Italian author Bernardo Zannoni is set in a primordial landscape where animals talk and tend their hearths but are never free from the struggle for survival. A picaresque fable, it has drawn comparisons to Pinocchio and Watership Down, The Wind in the Willows and The Stranger."--Provided by publisher.

Animal fiction.

Picaresque literature

Andriesse, Alex.

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