The representation and the function of Montreal in Jean-Simon DesRochers's La canicule des pauvres
Vol.38,No.1(2017)
Abstract
Keywords:
Montreal; postmodern city; postmodern novel; Quebec novel; metafiction; decadence
Pages:
69–86
In his first novel La canicule des pauvres (2009) Jean-Simon DesRochers makes the most of his experience with poetry to offer us a postmodern narrative ingeniously constructed and focused on the life in one single house. This house is a little bit like Montreal itself; it resembles the postmodern city, this melting-pot of cultures and human natures where the life doesn't follow any schedule. Without any detailed description, the metropolis permeates the whole book with its hot and sometimes even stifling presence. However, the Montreal postmodern reality is but a pretext for the creation of a complex novel introducing all of the postmodern techniques as if the author wanted create a perfect example of the postmodern novel which would be read by the masses, analysed by the critics and copied by the epigones.
Montreal; postmodern city; postmodern novel; Quebec novel; metafiction; decadence
69–86
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