The Grandfathers is a reflection on the passage of generations in a rural community. Based on the life of the author's grandfather, the novel explores the mockery and sorrow of old age: in memories and poverty, in the beauty of yesteryear and its present mutilation. The old man's saving grace is his attachment to his farm and its inhabitants, his tenacity to the natural cycle of the seasons and crops, and the fecundity animal and human generations. In this lyrical novel, dreams and folk wisdom interweave to create a universe of fantastic beings in a rich but simple setting.
Published in English.
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Imprint: Harvest House
Publication Date:
04 November 2099
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9780776635859
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Cultural Heritage
Critic and polemicist, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu has published articles in almost every newspaper in Quebec, notably Le Devoir. Beaulieu, who once lived in Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, the setting for The Grandfathers, never completed his post-secondary studies, working instead in a bank and then as a secretary to a script writer. For five years he was Editions du Jour’s literary director, finally leaving to found his own publishing house, L’Aurore. In addition, he taught at Université du Québec and is a dedicated reader of both French and English classics. Les Grands-pères, awarded the Grand Prix littéraire of Montreal in 1972, and Jack Kérouac ‘the first liberated novel of the future' according to Claude Mauriac, have been published in Paris.
