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    <![CDATA[Les belles-soeurs]]>
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    <![CDATA[Few writers are fortunate enough to begin their careers with a work as resoundingly significant as Michel Tremblay's play <em>Les Belles Soeurs</em>. He wrote the play in 1965 but took three years to arrange a public performance. Its first production, however, was hugely successful and controversial, permanently changing theatre in Quebec. The play may be the province's most famous literary export. <em>Les Belles Soeurs</em> is based on a simple premise: Germaine Lauzon, a poor Québécoise woman, wins a million trading stamps in a lottery. To redeem them Germaine must glue them into the provided booklets, so she keeps her daughter home and invites her friends and relatives to join her in a &quot;stamp party.&quot; The vitriol begins within seconds: the women bicker, steal the stamps, and recite their deprivations in a wild cacophony that is both hysterically funny and pitiably bleak. <p> John Van Burek and Bill Glassco have made an admirable attempt at translating <em>Les Belles Soeurs</em>, but this is ultimately an untranslatable play. Tremblay was among the first Quebec authors to incorporate the Québécois dialect known as <em>joual</em> into literary writing, and there is no useful equivalent in Canadian English idiom for the dialect's inflections and expressions. Nevertheless, the translation is an uproarious and affecting work in its own right--a testament to the power of the original. Tremblay has gone on to create a diverse and impressive oeuvre, from his Plateau Mont-Royal chronicles (beginning with <em>The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant</em>) to the surreal horrors of <em>Stories for Late Night Drinkers</em>, but <em>Les Belles Soeurs</em> may well continue to be his most important work. <em>--Jack Illingworth</em> </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Un ange cornu avec des ailes de tôle]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant]]>
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    <![CDATA[The first of a five-novel series called &quot;Chronicles du plateau Mont-Royal&quot;, about the inhabitants of a working-class street in Montreal. The story begins in May 1942, and traces the characters living on the street, from the ex-courtesan Ti-Lou to the gluttonous couple who eat continually.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Thérèse et Pierrette à l'école des Saints-Anges]]>
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    <![CDATA[La Nuit des Princes Charmants]]>
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    <![CDATA[La Traversée du continent (La Diaspora des Desrosiers, #1)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Le coeur découvert]]>
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    <![CDATA[Chronique d'un quotidien en crise, ce récit de la naissance d'un couple pas comme les autres est aussi un appel à la tolérance. <em>Le C&#339;ur découvert</em> est le premier roman de Michel Tremblay qui n'appartient pas aux <em>Chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal</em>. <p> Jean-Marc, professeur de français résidant dans le chic quartier Outremont, à Montréal, rencontre Mathieu, un jeune acteur au chômage. Jean-Marc a 39 ans et a rompu avec Luc, beau et volage comédien, apparu dans la pièce <em>Les Anciennes Odeurs</em>&#8230; Le premier soir, saisi, Jean-Marc s'enfuit. Puis rappelle Mathieu le surlendemain pour s'excuser. Entre les deux hommes s'amorce une intense relation dont la différence d'âge n'est pas la seule difficulté qu'ils auront à surmonter. Mathieu est le père d'un garçon de quatre ans qui va faire irruption dans la vie de Jean-Marc, pour le meilleur et pour le pire. &#147;Je les ai vus venir, main dans la main, Mathieu le cou étiré pour voir si j'étais sur le balcon, Sébastien, si petit, mon Dieu, si petit, trottinant à son côté. Dans sa main libre, Mathieu tenait une minuscule valise bleu pâle. (&#8230;) J'ai deviné le pyjama de flanellette, l'ourson en peluche, peut-être un ou deux puzzles douze morceaux représentant des animaux joyeux, un autre jouet favori, des vêtements de rechange. J'ai eu envie de pleurer. De peur.&#148; Voilà de quoi bouleverser la vie de Jean-Marc. <p> Dans ce roman, sans doute le meilleur de sa veine &#147;réaliste&#148;, Michel Tremblay excelle à décrire les doutes et les désirs, le courage et la lâcheté de ses contemporains. --<em>Raymond Bertin</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Chroniques du Plateau-Mont-Royal]]>
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    <![CDATA[Cahier noir Le]]>
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    <![CDATA[Vingt-et-uniÃ¨me livre de Michel Tremblay (sans compter les piÃ¨ces de thÃ©Ã¢tre), <em>Le Cahier noir</em> se prÃ©sente sous la forme d'un journal intime. Entre deux <em>hamburger platters</em> servis au <em>greasy spoon</em> Le SÃ©lect, en plein cÅur du Red Light de MontrÃ©al, CÃ©line note frÃ©nÃ©tiquement les moindres dÃ©tails de sa vie, de ses rÃªves, mais surtout la haine de son passÃ©, de sa mÃ¨re et de sa famille. &#147;L'odeur qu'elle dÃ©gageait en passant prÃ¨s de moi soulevait le cÅur. (â¦) Comment taire une chose qu'on endure depuis si longtempsÂ ? Ce cahier noir doit servir Ã  Ã§a aussiÂ ! Me laver de tout, mÃªme de Ã§aÂ ! Mais en suis-je vraiment lavÃ©e quand je l'ai couchÃ© sur la page blancheÂ ?&#148; <p> Premier roman du deuxiÃ¨me cycle des Chroniques (en rÃ©fÃ©rence aux <em>Chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal</em>, pierre angulaire de l'Åuvre de Tremblay), <em>Le Cahier noir</em> se dÃ©roule Ã  la fin des annÃ©es 60, alors que MontrÃ©al s'apprÃªte Ã  accueillir l'exposition universelle de 1967 qui ouvrira le QuÃ©bec au monde. Dans son restaurant, CÃ©line sert des patates frites graisseuses Ã  une faune bigarrÃ©e d'Ã©tudiants, de futurs acteurs, de &#147;guidounes&#148;, de voyous et de travestis qui font des passes sur la &#147;Main&#148;. Au milieu de tout ce beau monde tout aussi blessÃ© qu'elle, CÃ©line apprendra, Ã  la dure, Ã  se libÃ©rer peu Ã  peu de ses chaÃ®nes.  <p> Ãcrit dans le style direct et rÃ©aliste qui a fait la marque de Tremblay, <em>Le Cahier noir</em> est un roman sur l'acceptation de sa diffÃ©rence et le dur chemin qu'il faut parcourir pour se trouver soi-mÃªme. C'est aussi un hymne Ã  l'Ã©criture et au thÃ©Ã¢tre. --<em>Pascale Millot</em></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Bonbons Assortis/Assorted Candies]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Bonbons Assortis/Assorted Candies&quot; completes Michel Tremblay's autobiographical narrative oeuvre. Like the previous three volumes, which celebrate the books, plays, and films that shaped his imagination and his writing life, this collection of eight delightful stories takes us back to Tremblay's formative years in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal, offering the reader poignant and joyful childhood memories as varied as the assorted candies his mother hoarded under her bed, to be shared only on the most festive or dramatic of family occasions.]]>
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