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2007., Hurtubise HMH Call No: FR Fic Dav Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Amours interdites Volume: tome IIISummary Note: Le printemps 1967 s'annonce et avec lui souffle un vent nouveau qui fera virevolter le destin de plusieurs des habitants de Saint-Jacques-de-la-Rive. L'heure est au bouleversement des mœurs et des valeurs. Ce que l'on nommera plus tard la Révolution tranquille s'est bel et bien installée, malgré les répliques acerbes du curé Savard, à qui Étienne Fournier et les autres membres de la fabrique répondront sur le même ton. Le maire, Côme Crevier, ne sera pas en reste, incarnant dorénavant l'autorité dans son village. Alors que tous les regards sont fixés sur Montréal et son exposition universelle, les jeunes adultes des familles Veilleux, Fournier, Hamel et Tremblay sont appelés à faire des choix. Bataille de coq, déception amoureuse, emplois prometteurs, grossesse honteuse, promesse de mariage, émancipation, perte d'enfant, tous sont emportés par le tourbillon de la vie. Nostalgiques devant tous ces changements, la génération de leurs parents se réfugie dans les souvenirs. Étrangement, la relation chaotique qu'entretiennent Bertrand Tremblay et d'André Veilleux leur rappelle celle, aussi houleuse, de leurs grands-pères Eugène et Ernest.
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c1995., General, Knopf Canada Call No: Bio W651w Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Bio G132a Edition: Translated ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One of Canadaœs greatest literary figures reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts. Re-examining the influences of her early life in a large, rural Catholic family, Madeleine Gagnon not only explores her rejection of unexamined values as part of her intellectual development but also her refusal to be categorized by her gender.Karl Marx replaced Paul Claudel in Gagnonœs intellectual pantheon. Psychoanalysis gave rise to the desire to write, and her first works poured out in a torrent. She describes the friendships that played such a large part in her life and the feminist battles of the time with all their hopes and disappointments. At the same time she casts a sharp eye on contemporary Quebec society, tracing the emergence of a distinct Canadian literature.This is an account of a life well lived, told with candour, wisdom, and an inextinguishable sense of wonder.
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2013., Adult, Boréal Call No: QWF FR Bio G135d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Née à Amqui, Madeleine Gagnon se souvient avec enchantement de son enfance entourée dœune nature rayonnante, au sein dœune vaste famille qui œuvre dans la forêt et sur la terre, gens droits et fiers, mais sur lœesprit desquels règne encore indûment tout ce qui porte soutane.Lœentrée au pensionnat marque le début des grandes aventures intellectuelles et la naissance dœun profond refus qui commence à creuser ses sillons. Refus qui tranquillement remontera à la surface pendant les études en Europe, pour éclater quand la jeune femme rentrera dans un Québec méconnaissable. Marx a remplacé Claudel. La psychanalyse accompagne et favorise la venue à lœécriture, et lœœuvre surgit sous forme dœun torrent. En même temps que la femme connaît la douleur et lœéblouissement de lœenfantement, lœexaltation amoureuse et les tourments du désamour.Madeleine Gagnon raconte aussi les amitiés, primordiales, avec Annie Leclerc, Christiane Rochefort, entre autres. Les luttes féministes, avec tous les rêves et toutes les déchirures quœelles portent. Le temps qui transforme tout, la disparition des parents. Les nouvelles passions, qui seules nous permettent de continuer la route, comme celle de comprendre le lien cruel et mystérieux qui unit les femmes et la guerre.
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2004., Leméac Call No: QWF FR Fic Lei Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Linda Leith's memoir, Marrying Hungary, is the moving story of the daughter of Irish Communist parents who, after a peripatetic childhood, falls in love and marries a Hungarian refugee. It is a glimpse into a life spent among foreigners, a tale of identity and eventual independence. And it reveals what few memoirs reveal: what brings a couple together, what marriage means to an ambitious and accomplished woman, and why sometimes even a good marriage eventually fails.
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2007., XYZ Pub. Call No: QWF Bio R888v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Quest library Volume: 30
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2011., General, New York Review Books Call No: Bio N434g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New York Review Books classics.Summary Note: Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky, a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didnœt consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger. It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her motherœs memoirs. The first part of the book, dated 1929, the year David Golder made Némirovsky famous, takes us back to her difficult childhood in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Her father is doting, her mother a beautiful monster, while Irene herself is bookish and self-absorbed. There are pogroms and riots, parties and excursions, then revolution, from which the family flees to France, a country of moderation, freedom, and generosity,· where at last she is happy. Some thirteen years later Irène picks up her pen again. Everything has changed. Abandoned by friends and colleagues, she lives in the countryside and waits for the knock on the door. Written a decade before the publication of Suite Française made Irène Némirovsky famous once more (something Gille did not live to see), The Mirador is a haunted and a haunting book, an unflinching reckoning with the tragic past, and a triumph not only of the imagination but of love.
