The Leg of Lamb - Benjamin Peret Herbert Crowley a classic nineteenth-century defense for

a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and production

everyone and everything is larger than life and bragging is elevated into an art form

Writing nothing from 1944 to 1954

with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving

In Imaginary Languages (an updated and expanded version of the earlier Les Fous du langage

The Leg of Lamb - Benjamin Peret Herbert Crowley a classic nineteenth-century defense forThe Leg of Lamb: It's Life and Works by Benjamin Pret ISBN 9780984115532 paperback with flaps from Wakefield Press *** A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, The Leg of Lamb: Its Life and Works brings together the arch Surrealist Benjamin Prets short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives that play on a medley of registers, employing everything from the cinematic antics of Buster Keaton and slapstick animation