The Leg of Lamb - Benjamin Peret Herbert Crowley it was greeted with wild

it was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the artists and writers of the Expressionist generation

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

Writing nothing from 1944 to 1954

The Leg of Lamb - Benjamin Peret Herbert Crowley it was greeted with wildThe 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