ABSTRACT
Extract from ‘James Joyce et Pécuchet’, Mercure de France, clvi (June 1922), 307–20. Also appeared in Pound's Polite Essays (1937), PP. 82–97; translated by Fred Bornhauser in Shenandoah, iii (Autumn 1952), 9–20 (from which the present text is taken). See the Introduction, p. 21, for the place of this significant criticism of Ulysses.
