![]() ![]() ![]() My Stupid Intentions is Archy’s life story-and it is crammed with life, with nerve, joy, terror, anger, and discovery. I enjoyed all 211 pages of it.Īrchy, the narrator of My Stupid Intentions is a beech marten, a kind of mustelid similar to a weasel or ferret. It won the 2022 Campiello Prize, and is now available in English thanks to translator Alex Andriesse and publisher NYRB. My Stupid Intentions ( I miei stupidi intenti) is Bernardo Zannoni’s first published novel. Perhaps, having put forth details in lieu of a bigger picture, I should backtrack: Archy is then sold into the service of a writer named Solomon for the low price of one and a half chickens. And poor Otis? “I’m going to die because I’m not growing,” he declares at the family dinner. He then engages in sexual intercourse with his sister Louise. A few pages later, Archy falls from a tree, leaving one leg permanently lame. Otis is small and weak, but his brothers ultimately elect to remain hungry and not consume him. ![]() A few pages into Bernardo Zannoni’s brash, brilliant novel My Stupid Intentions, our narrator Archy and his eldest brother Leroy have the following conversation about their youngest brother Otis: ![]()
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