Two Solitudes

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780773553903

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Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan Pdf

Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction Canada Reads Selection (CBC), 2013 A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in First World War–era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other.” The novel centres around Paul Tallard and his struggles in reconciling the differences between the English identity of his love Heather Methuen and her family, and the French identity of his father. Against this backdrop the country is forming, the chasm between French and English communities growing deeper. Published in 1945, the novel popularized the use of “two solitudes” as referring to a perceived lack of communication between English- and French-speaking Canadians. Content note: This book contains racial slurs that readers may find offensive or upsetting.

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780773578784

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The Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan Pdf

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.

Author : Donald Smith
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biculturalism
ISBN : 155266001X

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Beyond Two Solitudes by Donald Smith Pdf

Answering the anti-Quebec rhetoric of Diane Francis, Barbara Amiel, and others, this book demonstrates to Quebecers and English Canadians alike that English Canada has a rich and unique culture, and concludes with a vibrant plea for a new Canada based on the recognition of three peoples or nations--English, French (Quebec, Acadia, French Canada) and native--with guarantees for minority rights.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200952090

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Author : Blanche Thomas
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491291389

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White Woman, Black Man by Blanche Thomas Pdf

That story takes place in the 90's, in multicultural Montreal. Bianca, a Quebecker "pure laine" and babyboomer, meets Toto, a young Haitian immigrant and musician. Immigration and integration to Quebec's culture will greatly confront Toto's values. And change Bianca's views of Quebec. Will their couple survive? It takes us into a journey through Quebec's and Haiti's history.

Author : Bob Kaufman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811200760

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Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness by Bob Kaufman Pdf

Author : Anita Anand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771667443

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A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand Pdf

A story of identity, connection and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two families across Partition in India, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec. Sunil and Hima, teenage lovers, bravely defy taboos in pre-Partition India to come together as their country divides in two. They move across the world to Montreal and raise a family, but Sunil shows symptoms of schizophrenia, shattering their newfound peace. As a teenager, their daughter Rani becomes obsessed with Quebecois supergroup Sensibilité--and, in particular, the band's charismatic, nationalistic frontman, Serge Giglio--whose music connects Rani to the province's struggle for cultural freedom. A chance encounter leads Rani to babysit Mélanie, Serge's adopted daughter from Vietnam, bringing her fleetingly within his inner circle. Years later, Rani, now a college guidance counselor, discovers that Mélanie has booked an appointment to discuss her future at the school. Unmoved by her father's staunch patriotism and her British mother's bourgeois ways, Mélanie is struggling with deep uncertainty about her identity and belonging. As the two women's lives become more and more intertwined, Rani's fascination with Melanie's father's music becomes a strange shadow amidst their friendship.

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780773586253

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Voices in Time by Hugh MacLennan Pdf

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives: his older cousin Timothy Wellfleet, a Montreal TV journalist at the time of the 1970 War Measures Act, and his stepfather, Conrad Dehmel, a German scholar struggling to keep his Jewish fiancée and himself safe from Hitler's Gestapo. Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story.

Author : Ray Robertson
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781771960731

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Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) by Ray Robertson Pdf

“The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified.” — LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson’s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country’s most inimitable artists. Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the “greater or lesser heat” with which each musician shaped their genre, while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. Includes essays on Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Townes Van Zandt, Little Richard, Alan Wilson, Willie P. Bennett, Gram Parsons, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Siebel, Willis Alan Ramsey, and John Hartford.

Author : Amy J. Ransom,Dominick Grace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030156855

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Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Amy J. Ransom,Dominick Grace Pdf

Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes exposes the limitations of the solitudes concept so often applied uncritically to the Canadian experience. This volume examines Canadian and Québécois literature of the fantastic across its genres—such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, indigenous futurism, and others—and considers how its interrogation of colonialism, nationalism, race, and gender works to bridge multiple solitudes. Utilizing a transnational lens, this volume reveals how the fantastic is ready-made for exploring, in non-literal terms, the complex and problematic nature of intercultural engagement.

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780773583139

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Return of the Sphinx by Hugh MacLennan Pdf

Set in Montreal and Ottawa, this book continues the story of Alan Ainslie, idealist, patriot and intellectual, who has a special insight into Russian policy. This time, however, the theme is the conflict between Ainslie and his son Daniel, a young Quebec separatist.

Author : Hugh MacLennan,F. W. MacLean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 0771516568

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Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan,F. W. MacLean Pdf

Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 057508300X

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Aegypt by John Crowley Pdf

There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe. Historian Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Aegypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe: that the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it: a key, perhaps, to Aegypt.

Author : Peter Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798564475778

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Linebound by Peter Turner Pdf

Linebound is an old Eastern Townships word referring to those who have been banned for legal reasons from crossing the nearby border between Quebec and Vermont. Peter Turner's novel is the story of a country lawyer navigating the borderlands of life. Charlie England, an Anglo born in 1975 on his family's 200-year old Eastern Townships farm rides both sides of the line between English and French culture, the vividness of life and bleakness of death, and the profound changes from a centuries old way of life to a world with no apparent regard for what it has lost. With humour, humility, and honesty, we trace Charlie's path between harsh and hilarious early lessons in farm and country life to football scholarships and heartache at Laval. Punctuated by absurd but uniquely human legal cases threaded through a married life that rolls through valleys of passion then isolation, Linebound is the story of a man caught in a moment of social, cultural, and personal upheaval and the messy space of difference and tolerance that is vital to making it all work.

Author : Liuba González de Armas,Ana Ruiz Aguirre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-10
Category : Hispanic American arts
ISBN : 1777085918

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Beyond the Gallery: An Anthology of Visual Encounters by Liuba González de Armas,Ana Ruiz Aguirre Pdf

SILVER MEDALIST at the 2022 International Latino Book Awards Looking at Art Beyond the Gallery's White Cube with Latinx Eyes. BEYOND THE GALLERY is the second instalment of the Beyond series by Laberinto Press. This multilingual and multi-genre anthology showcases emerging and established talents within the Hispanic-Canadian community, featuring a broad range of writings on visual culture by writers, artists, and cultural workers. Resisting the sterility of contemporary art's white cube, BEYOND THE GALLERY embraces eclecticism by weaving together a labyrinth of visual experiences through intersecting and diverging pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and academic research. In doing this, we invite readers to consider Hispanic-Canadian literature as Canadian literature, beyond the confines of Magical Realism, the official English-French bilingual model, and to see yourself in these pages. Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Latinx Studies. Art.