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Of all contemporary Québec writers, André Major is probably the one who can most directly claim to embody a certain kind of realism, notably in his trilogy Histoires de déserteurs (1974-1976). This realism, seen as too conventional and too “bourgeois”, was given short shrift at the time. Inspired by writers now seen as classic such as Chekhov or Simenon, André Major naturally finds himself opposing a modernity that is fascinated by formal virtuosity and fashionable themes. In his case, realism takes on a paradoxically polemical character: what locates his text within a certain literary canon is also what is given an oppositional value. In the same way, the discreet, precise and smooth prose used by Major in both novels and notebooks is opposed to the puns and baroque style for which so many Québec writers have a liking. In this article, the author studies the curious reversal of values that makes the most discreet form of realism into a “new” form of opposition.
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The publication and wide reception of self-fictions, from Serge Doubrovsky to Nelly Arcan, caused a major shift, first in France but also in Québec, in the media's approach to literature. A new convention of reality was born, and this new realism entailed a series of ideological consequences that Québec novels of the 2000s have challenged, using, among other things, the figure of the fictional novelist. Based on two examples, Patrick Nicol's La blonde de Patrick Nicol and Alain Farah's Matamore no 29, this study proposes to study self-fictional reality and its questioning by contemporary Québec literature.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of the highly gifted Quebecer known to us as Louis Dantin is the story of his life. He was aware of this, as is shown by his concern for providing autobiographical elements in his correspondence, his lyrical works, his “autobiographical sketch” and Les enfances de Fanny, which he describes as an “autobiographical novel”. Although he did not dare publish some of these texts during his life, his example inspired many writers of the interwar period. This article examines the various components of Dantin's autobiographical discourse while suggesting that the complexity of this man, who was ahead of his time, is clearly greater than the image he was able to reveal in his written works.
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AbstractL'antiphonaire mobilizes in the weaving of its diegetic content numerous forms of non-literary knowledge. Through an epistemocritical approach, this article studies one of them: the alchemical knowledge. Not only does it spot the principal hermetic references in the novel, but it also analyses how the borrowing of theories from alchemical philosophy influences Aquin's diegesis and writing. It shows primarily how the novel's epigraph, taken from an alchemical treatise attributed to Mary the Copt, structures the whole network of characters who, far from being distinct individuals, appear as the various metamorphoses of a unique entity divided between the poles of the conscious and of the unconscious. In that case, L'antiphonaire represents the attempt to reunite both of these elements through a process in which the literary work coincides with the Great Work.
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AbstractThat all epistolary exchange is based on a pragmatic form of giving, on a gesture which, because there is no guarantee of any return, creates a permanent debt between the partners of the exchange — this is what is suggested by Saint-Denys Garneau in the letter written at Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf on December 30, 1932. The letter writer undertakes an intense accounting activity which confers a priceless quality on his offering. This article attempts to locate this practice of epistolary giving in the discursive context of Québec in the thirties, at a time when the gift system appeared to major doxographists as an alternative to the utilitarian morality and market economy that had pushed Québec into the Depression. Deeply engaged with the ideology of his time, Saint-Denys Garneau also appears as an epistolary usurer, speculating on the corporatist logic of the gift in order to launch his own writing career.
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AbstractSeveral of André Brochu's recent books put in the forefront the question of identity: La Grande langue. Éloge de l'anglais, Fièvres blanches and La Vie aux trousses. This article examines the configuration of masculine identity contained in this last novel. In light of new theories of masculinity, Brochu's text oscillates between a traditional conception and a more constructivist one - itself at the origin of contemporary theories of masculinity -particularly with respect to the representation of homosexuality. In emphasizing the book's language and diverse rhetorical structures, we notice that the construction of the male being in La Vie aux trousses operates in a playful, ironic and often contradictory manner.
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SummaryComparison of Picasso's painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon with masks from African societies with the Poro institution. This study shows that the aesthetics of Picasso's painting and the aesthetics of the Poro institution mask are one and the same, whereas the politics of Picasso's work and the politics promoted by the masks are diametrically opposed. Thus the following conclusion: that which is political in art is not located in forms but in the signified.