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2018., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: 819.309 C692e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The study of Montreal as a specific location in French and English writings has long been subordinated to the demands of linguistically divided and politically contentious narratives about national development. In this cross-linguistic study, Patrick Coleman models an inclusive and post-national literary history of the city itself. Tracing a sequence of moments in the emergence of the Montreal novel from World War II to the turbulent 1960s, Equivocal City offers close readings of fourteen key works of fiction, focusing on the inner dynamic of their construction as well as the unexpected convergences and contrasts in the narrative structures they adopt and the aesthetic perspective they seek to achieve. Critically sophisticated but accessibly written, this book gives a sympathetic account of how writers in both languages struggled to give integrated artistic expression to their experience of a city that was still linguistically compartmentalized and culturally insecure. By analyzing the interplay between story and narrative form, the book explores what French and English novelists could--and could not--imagine about the Montreal they sought to portray. From the responsible realism of Hugh MacLennan and Gabrielle Roy to the fractious phantasmagorias of Jacques Ferron and Leonard Cohen, Equivocal City traces the evolution of the Montreal novel with the aim of retrieving a shareable literary past."--
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2015., Editions Boreal Call No: FR QWF Fic Ric Edition: FRE ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Rien ne prédestine le jeune Joshua Shapiro, terreur de la rue Saint-Urbain, à la célébrité pas plus quœau faste de Westmount. Fils dœun escroc au cœur un peu trop honnête et dœune fille de bonne famille descendue dœOutremont pour tenter sa chance dans le strip-tease, Joshua saura pourtant sœélever au-dessus de sa condition pour mener une brillante carrière de journaliste sportif et dœécrivain. Surtout, il réussira à séduire la fille dœun éminent sénateur, la belle, la fabuleuse Pauline Hornby, et à côtoyer sans jamais sœy intégrer le plus select des milieux montréalais. Mais une série dœincidents viendra chambouler son existence, lœamenant à se demander si sa vie vaut encore la peine dœêtre vécue.Entremêlant avec brio les lieux et les époques, de la guerre civile espagnole au Québec de la Révolution tranquille, en passant par Ibiza, Londres ou le bar du Ritz, Joshua est un roman virevoltant, à lœhumour aussi grinçant que désopilant, où se déclinent les différents visages dœun homme haut en couleur qui figure parmi les personnages les plus attachants de Mordecai Richler.Avec Joshua, le Boréal poursuit sa série de reprises des principales œuvres de fiction de Mordecai Richler dans de nouvelles traductions. Réalisées par Lori Saint-Martin et Paul Gagné, celles-ci permettront aux lecteurs de Richler de retrouver les romans quœils connaissent déjà dans un texte français plus fidèle aux accents de lœoriginal, et aux autres de découvrir un auteur de premier plan, dont les œuvres nœétaient, pour nombre dœentre elles, plus disponibles en français.
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-- Not in vain you have sent me lightBy Siré, Cora2021., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF 811.6 S619n Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential poets Volume: 287.Summary Note: "This collection vaults from the provocative - a deeply personal exposé of two lovers and their collisions and triumphs - into a high-voltage gallery depicting heroes and artists, scientists and politicians, mothers and their conflicted daughters. As the settings shift between the poet's homage to her home city of Montreal ("Sinville") to a near-drowning on a lake by a maximum security prison in New York State ("Cobalt") or calamities in the Andes of northern Argentina ("Argent"), Cora Siré draws on a colourful palette of form, lyric and metaphor to continue her exploration of identity, displacement and the cosmic powers of love and art."--
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2003. Call No: DVD Bio L429r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A look inside the life of Montreal poet Irving Layton, one of the most remarkable personalities in the Canadian literary scene.
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2021., Adult, Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Call No: QWF Fic San Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library