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Comment, On Translation

A Matter of Attraction

A Matter of Attraction

Author, translator, scholar, and teacher Louis Jolicoeur discusses translation theory and practice and his book La sirène et le pendule.

Translation

Stone Blades

Stone Blades

From a small-town childhood to a postwar lumber camp to the throes of the Quiet Revolution, Des lames de pierre keeps returning to one central concern: What does it mean to set words down on paper?

Review, Translation

Grande plaine IV

Grande plaine IV

Think back to a road trip you’ve taken. Grande Plaine IV is a bit like that road trip: funny and sweet, clever and heartfelt. Young.

Comment, On Translation

Sweet détresse

Sweet détresse

Daniel Grenier discusses his skillful and unabashedly Québécois translation of Anna Leventhal’s Sweet Affliction.

Comment, Translation

Underdog Superhero

Underdog Superhero

Every year the thought of a new Blais keeps us afloat, our heads above water, promising us that, once we’ve finished our homework, we will be free, at last, to go out and play.

Review, Translation

An Ideal Sparseness?

An Ideal Sparseness?

Nature has no secret plan. Nature is not a kind organizer. Nature doesn’t give a shit. She does her thing. Drops us through the hole, then waits.

Review, Translation

Hollywood

Hollywood

Marc Séguin vividly describes the mundane but germane moments of being that make up a life.

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The Other Salon du Livre

The Other Salon du Livre

Writing is demanding, difficult… We can no longer live as before. Our writings remain, our memory spread out before us, our entire life this tangle of writings.

Review, Translation

In the Army

In the Army

We’d embed ourselves in the Canadian Forces like undercover journalists…beat them at their own game and come out with first-hand knowledge.

Review

Nova

Nova

Le Quartanier celebrated its tenth birthday with the release of ten novellas. We review them all.
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