Brief Lives of Idiots - Ermanno Cavazzoni Claire Scully The Real Thief

The Real Thief

Lawrence Venuti’s new translation reverts to the title that Buzzati originally intended to give his book

to prose and even visual art (the volume includes six of his decalcomania images)

will find the inclusion of Erben’s notes particularly illuminating

and large-format illustrations

Brief Lives of Idiots - Ermanno Cavazzoni Claire Scully The Real ThiefBrief Lives of Idiots by Ermanno Cavazzoni ISBN 9781939663535 small paperback with flaps from Wakefield Press *** "What follows is one calendar month. Each day holds the life of a kind of saint, who experiences agony and ecstasy the way traditional saints do. Then our month ends, because everything in this world must end, even our brief idiot lives." A parody of the Lives of the Saints from the Middle Ages, Ermanno Cavazzonis Brief Lives of Idiots