The Old Man and the Bench Canada Using oppositions to stage O’Brien’s

Using oppositions to stage O’Brien’s literary representation of the relationship of speakers to their native tongue

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

The Old Man and the Bench Canada Using oppositions to stage O’Brien’sThe 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