Gérard Bessette (1920-2005): a monstre sacré in French Canadian Literature

This article examines Gérard Bessette’s relative marginalization in French Canadian literature by means of rereading his first novel, La Bagarre (1958) in terms of its monstrous aesthetic and its rapport with subsequent novels, notably Le Semestre (1979). Bessette’s first novel allows us not onl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steven Urquhart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2011-06-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol35/iss2/5