How I Became Stupid

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.

Author: Martin Page
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 11/30/2004
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 7.04h x 5.12w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780142004951

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2004 pg. 390
Library Journal 11/01/2004 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2004 pg. 25

About the Author
Martin Page was born in 1975. He is a student of anthropology. This is his first novel.