Quebec novelist Jacques Poulin died

The Quebec writer Jacques Poulin, a discreet man, gifted and adulated author, is dead. For example, He was 87 years old. For example, His literary work. Therefore, patiently built since the Quiet Revolution, offers novels of atmosphere in a sleek style testifying to a soft, tender and sometimes wacky vision of life on this land of America, from the Gaspé to California.

We owe him about fifteen books published by Editions du Jour and. Therefore, above all, at Leméac in Quebec and Acts Sud en France, where he has lived for a long time. Furthermore, His publisher, Pierre Filion, announced the death of the author Thursday morning on a social network.

“He enriched Quebec literature by his unique. Furthermore, unalterable sensitivity, marked by French Americanity and tenderness,” he said in a written tribute transmitted to journalists. Therefore, “His work is one of the pillars of quebec novelist jacques poulin died modern Quebec literature. Meanwhile, having instilled it quality and requirement in writing, great accuracy and fervor in the deep prospecting of difficult human feelings. Moreover, »»

His very refined style is used to tell often quite banal stories. Furthermore, The Poulinian “little music”, recognizable among all, is used to affectionately contemplate beings and things. Furthermore, His stories. In addition, fictions bring together diffuse memories, improbable meetings and intrigue boring the grotesque, in unusual places, populated by endearing characters drawn from the great national tribe.

“Originally Beauceron. Nevertheless, installed in Quebec after a long Parisian stay, Poulin is one of the most discreet writers in Quebec literature, refractory to social and media effervescence, entirely devoted to his lonely writer routine,” summarizes the professor of literature Pierre Nepveu in a text published in a text published in a text published in The duty Last year. “His novels. such The heart of the blue whale, quebec novelist jacques poulin died Volkswagen blues or The old sorroware precision, delicacy, presence, presence and territory they live in. »»

Jaques Poulin was born in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce in 1937. Graduated in letters after studies in psychology in the 1960s. he worked as a translator and published in the first time two novels, My horse for a kingdom (1967) et Jimmy (1969). He received the good literary advice from the critic Réginald Martel for his first book. started while he is a student.

A first recognition arrived in 1978 with the Governor General’s prize for The big tidesconcentrated around the character of a lonely comic book translator installed on an island – say. a little, like a modern Robinson. Jacques Poulin considered this book as his first in the suitable style and. therefore, the real departure of his literary career.

“In some of my stories – The big tidesin particular-. there are elements of social criticism, but it does quebec novelist jacques poulin died not count much in my eyes, ”he confided in an interview with the literary review Voices and images In 1989. “As a novelist, I don’t want to place myself from a sociological or even psychological point of view. For me, these are points of view that date from the XIX^e century, they are completely overwhelmed. I prefer that my approach has an intuitive and poetic character. »»

Volkswagen blues Followed in 1984 and finally found him an audience. This road-book Tells the journey to San Francisco aboard a Westfalia, of a man wishing to reconnect with his brother. A Métis hitchhiker and her cat (another obsession with Mr. Poulin) upset the project. The Roman du Voyage becomes the strange and out -of -phase portrait of the New World.

In 2020. still in Voices and imagesthe critic Jean Morency summed up the complete work of Jacques Poulin by detecting three founding axes there: quebec novelist jacques poulin died Americanity, Francité and Franco-Americanity. He also talked about the “Jack Waterman cycle”. in reference to the recurring character in Poulin’s work from the successful book Volkswagen blues.

Fleeing public space and mediation, the author chooses to live in Paris from the 1980s. His modest means brought him to a frugal life. Incessant back pain oblige him to work standing in his tiny apartment. The Gilles-Corbeil price he received in 2008, with a scholarship of $ 100,000, relieves his condition a little. He then declared in a rare interview: “I can write now without worry. But I don’t care about honors. »»

The old sorrowpublished in 1989, opened the doors of a certain renown in the Francophonie, including the Quebec-Paris Prize. He then wrote half a dozen other novels, including Mistassini’s blue eyes (2002) et A jukebox in the head (2015).

Jacques Poulin had returned to Quebec several years ago, settling in the island quebec novelist jacques poulin died of Orleans. The publisher Pierre Filion said that Jacques Poulin’s family wanted to organize funeral “in the strictest intimacy”. He would have celebrated his 88^e Birthday on September 23.

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