The Old Man and the Bench Canada Like Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet

Like Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet or Beckett’s Mercier and Camier

hysterically ranting voice

His storytelling lays bare his own obsessions: food

while new readers will discover what they’ve been missing

The Old Man and the Bench Canada Like Flaubert’s Bouvard and PécuchetThe title character in The Old Man and the Bench has a contract that requires him to write, and he feels he should focus on his past. Yet instead of childhood reminiscences, the old man dwells on a series of mini narratives about, for example, a love triangle among concrete towers, a chaste visit by two call girls, and the joint by joint cannibalization of his fingers. The title character in The Old Man and the Bench has a contract that requires him