Idiocy - Pierre Guyotat Stanley Donwood intro by Doug Skinner /

intro by Doug Skinner / 248-page paperback

Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign

Although his talent spanned many creative fields

seriousness

Globetrotting takes us across the streets of London

Idiocy - Pierre Guyotat Stanley Donwood intro by Doug Skinner /Idiocy 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