Go Figure - Couverture souple

Ducharme, Rejean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 088922482X ISBN 13 : 9780889224827

Editeur : Talonbooks, 2003

Synopsis

Go Figure is the hauntingly beautiful tale of a Montreal couple alienated from each other after suffering the miscarriage of twin girls. Mammy, the wife of Rémi Vavasseur, has gone away. Not because she no longer loves him but because she no longer loves herself. She is criss-crossing Europe and Africa in the company of the dangerous and blonde Raïa, Rémi's former mistress. Meanwhile, Rémi remodels a ramshackle house in rural Quebec, designed for Mammy, if she ever comes back, "in flesh and bed." The novel is the journal that he keeps during their parallel journeys.

Ducharme's writing, which has contributed to the recasting of the literary canon of Quebec, is full of echoes, juxtapositions and double meanings. With the likes of Marie-Claire Blais, Jacques Godbout and Michel Tremblay, Réjean Ducharme is one of the select québécois fiction writers who have contributed to the transformation of québécois letters since the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Novelist and playwright Rejean Ducharme was born in Saint-Felix-de-Valois, Quebec, in 1941. His first novel, L'Avalee des avales The Swallower Swallowed (1966), won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1967 and the CBC's Canada Reads francophone competition in 2005. This work also garnered him a nomination for France's prestigious Prix Goncourt. His second novel, Le Nez qui voque (1967), was awarded the Prix litteraire de la province de Quebec. These two, plus a third novel, L'Oceantume (1968), were published during the years of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec and made a significant impact.

Ducharme wrote the plays, Le Cid maghane and Ines Peree et Inat Tendu in 1968, and Ha ha! which won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1982 has also been translated into English. He received the Prix Belgique-Canada in 1973 for L'Hiver de force and the Prix France-Canada in 1976 for Les Enfantmes. In addition, he wrote the lyrics of several songs for Robert Charlebois (1976). Ducharme also wrote the screenplay for two very successful films: Les Bons Debarras (1979) and Les Beaux Souvenirs (1981) produced by Francis Mankiewicz. After a fourteen-year silence, Ducharme surprised the world with two novels, Devade (1990) and Va savoir (1994).

Will Browning holds a Docorate of Modern Langauges in French and Spanish from Middlebury College, and an MA in Spanish from the Universite de Paris. He is currently Professor at Boise State University. Browning publishes French-language reviews and articles, in addition to his translation work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Talonbooks
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 088922482X
• ISBN 13: 9780889224827
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible