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

with pages from Nezval’s dream journal

These high-toned reflections and imprecations unfold in a march mode almost

an allegory of the deadly bargain a striving young artist often makes with life

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