August 12, I buy a Quebec book | The suggestions of our columnists

Do you lack ideas for your Quebec purchases? Here are three books that our columnists have read and recommend.

Stand up to barbarians: user manual

Alain Saulnier has become one of the most efficient and relevant Quebec decryptors of the world offensive led by Facebook, X and other Tiktok in recent years. Stand up to web giants is the rest of his test Digital barbarianspublished two years earlier. In his recent book, he explains in detail how these “modern conquerors” threaten our culture and our democracy. In doing so, he demonstrates why you have to try to get rid of it as much as possible. His “alarm cry” is not just worrying. He is also invigorating.

Alexandre Sirois, The press

Stand up to web giants: a democratic requirement

Alain Saulnier

Écosociété

283 pages

Robertine Barry told to young people

There is around you a child from 9 to 12 curious, lively and expressing a taste for history? You have to offer him one of the books in the Bonjour Collection The History of Isitis editions. The most recent title is devoted to Robertine Barry, aka Françoise, considered the first French Canadian journalist. His texts were notably published in The homeland at the turn of the XX^e century. Friend and confidante of Émile Nelligan, she created her own newspaper and was a pioneer of feminism. The writing style is clear and concise. The other numbers relate to the Bolduc, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Laura Secord and several others. To offer without reservation to support our motto “I remember”.

Mario Girard, The press

Robertine Barry, journalist and feminist activist

Josée Ouimet

Editions of Isatis, Hondle history collection

80 pages

To discover Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

VLB has left us this year, and his work should not get lost. One of the best ways to enter your universe is probably to read To greet Victor Hugo – less exhausting than its James Joyce -, where he tells his birth of writer by his passion for Hugo. VLB is extraordinary when it is measured by other literary monsters, mixing its autobiography with the biography of another. “I was deep inside me so distraught that I needed to rely on something solid and vast; I had to start, that there is an ambition to be, and to be a lot. »»

Chantal Guy, The press

To greet Victor Hugo

Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Trois-Pistoles editions

408 pages