A stunning, ambitious novel that follows an unusual protagonist--a beech marten, a kind of weasel, who learns to read and write, discovers God and time, and develops a keen sense of self that makes him seem almost human.
A picaresque fable, it has drawn comparisons to Pinocchio and Watership Down , The Wind in the Willows and The Stranger ..
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.
Caught between his natural urges and his acquired knowledge, he seeks the meaning of his story by writing it.
But there is no way of unlearning what he has learned.
He longs to be a real animal.
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.
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.
My Stupid Intentions is the autobiography of a beech marten named Archy.
A stunning, ambitious novel that follows an unusual protagonist--a beech marten, a kind of weasel, who learns to read and write, discovers God and time, and develops a keen sense of self that makes him seem almost human
