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Patrick Coleman, the author of Equivocal City: French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal, which examines French and English novels of Postwar Montreal, sits down with authors Kaie Kellough (Accordéon, Magnetic Equator, Maple Leaf Rag) and Catherine Leroux (La marche en forêt, Le mur mitoyen/The party wall, Madame Victoria) to talk about the city's multiple literatures, past and present, and how they connect, overlap and diverge. Presented by the Quebec Writers' Federation.
Tracing a sequence of moments in the emergence of the Montreal novel from World War II to the turbulent 1960s, Equivocal City offers close readings of fourteen key works of fiction, focusing on the inner dynamic of their construction as well as the unexpected convergences and contrasts in the narrative structures they adopt and the aesthetic perspective they seek to achieve. Critically sophisticated but accessibly written, this book gives a sympathetic account of how writers in both languages struggled to give integrated artistic expression to their experience of a city that was still linguistically compartmentalized and culturally insecure. By analyzing the interplay between story and narrative form, the book explores what French and English novelists could - and could not - imagine about the Montreal they sought to portray.
Patrick Coleman is research professor of French and francophone studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.