Les grandes marées/Spring Tides, Governor General's Literary Award (1978), was among his most powerful works and one of the most profound Québécois novels despite its obvious lightness. Stilts along the riverbank, the parental relationship, society), 1969 Le coeur de la baleine bleue/The Heart of the Blue Whale, about a man transplanted with a young girl's heart who awakens to the risks of a problematic sexual identity, 1970 Īnd Faites de beaux rêves Prix La Presse, 1974. Other novels followed: Jimmy, about a child who witnesses the deterioration of everything (the summer cottage on His friends, a city (Québec) and a society from which he tries to free himself by an act of terrorism that ends up injuring him.
Jacques Poulin's first novel Mon cheval pour un royaume/My Horse for a Kingdom (1967), inspired in part by terrorism, is the story of a man grappling with himself and confined to a psychiatric hospital, a woman whose love he shares with one He was a career counselor in a Sainte-Foy high school (1967 -1970), then a translator for theįederal government (1970-1973), after which time he devoted himself to writing, living modestly in Paris where he has resided for about fifteen years. Following secondary studies at the seminaries in Saint-Georges and Nicolet (BA 1957) he earned two degrees from U.
0 kommentar(er)
