Articles tagged "Quebecois Literature"

The Zacharias Ascaris Affair (Mag: Articles)

By Nicolas Dickner | April 1, 2011

It all began five years ago, going on six. Ballast Publishing, a fledgling British publishing house, had just launched the first (and last) novel of its catalog, The Zacharias Ascaris Affair. No one, absolutely…...

Translated from French by Lazer Lederhendler bilingual version

Welcome to the Club (Mag: Articles)

By Nadine Bismuth | April 1, 2011

It was a spring evening and Dylane had invited us to her apartment in Rosemont, which she’d bought a few months earlier. It was the first time we were going to see it, so Hélène suggested…...

Translated from French by Alison Strayer

from “Reunion” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Pascal Girard | April 1, 2011

Don't move. You're bleeding.

Translated from French by Helge Dascher

Unagi (Mag: Articles)

By Dominique Fortier | April 1, 2011

On July 16, 2009, a young woman who was dining out with her husband in a Japanese restaurant in downtown Montreal died instantly when a concrete block fell from the front of the building and landed exactly…...

Translated from French by Paloma Vita bilingual version

Two Faces (Mag: Articles)

By Sylvain Trudel | April 1, 2011

Eyes closed, I see again the delicate edens growing in the frost on the windowpanes. Luminous garlands woven into the snow-covered railings during the festive season to celebrate the birth of a child-god.…...

Translated from French by Sheila Fischman

In Praise of the Margins (Mag: Articles)

By Elsa Pépin | March 31, 2011

It’s not easy to paint a faithful picture of a literature in only a few words. And so, rather than presenting a broad overview of the current Quebec literary scene, I propose to bring to your attention…...

Translated from French by Donald Winkler bilingual version

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