# Idiocy

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- Book: [Idiocy](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-guyotat/idiocy) ([Idiocy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-guyotat/idiocy.md))
- Authors: [Pierre Guyotat](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-guyotat), [Peter Behrman De Sinéty](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-behrman-de-sinety)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-919-7
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2025-10-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: rebelling aginst his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, from the French military during the Algerian...