Bouvar Pecuche Se Moi

It is aesthetically stubborn in that it refuses to give readers any of the narrative pleasures they traditionally crave. Ezra pound thought it inaugurated a new form which had no precedence. But as i only discovered in my fifties, it is not as implacable and programmatic a novel as it might seem. It is livelier and funnier and much more peculiar. And some find the result far from presto and too weighed down by information. That was always the point. Bouve pecochet is about too much learning, or obsessive amateurism, or useless learning, or cack handed learning. To write it presto would be to make it the sort of light comedy to