Jacques Ferron

Tales from the Uncertain Country and Other Stories

Übersetzer: Bednarski, Betty

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Produktbeschreibung

New to the NCL! Forty-one sparkling classics of Quebec fiction In these fantastic tall tales a bull turns into a lawyer, a lonely Alberta cow's ghost longs for Quebec, and Ulysses comes back to Ithaca Corner, Ontario. Jacques Ferron writes metaphysical fables, political satire, portraits of men and women in all walks of life, and wry comedies, with great originality and a profound sympathy for the human condition. These forty-one sparkling classics are among the most celebrated works in modern Quebec literature. They appear in this original New Canadian Library collection in a specially revised and expanded translation by Betty Bednarski.

Produktdetails

• New Canadian Library
• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 130mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780771094040
• ISBN-10: 0771094043
• Artikelnr.: 29921800

Autorenporträt

Jacques Ferron, Afterword by Dr. Betty Bednarski

Inhaltsangabe

Translator’s Note
 
TALES FROM THE UNCERTAIN COUNTRY:
Back to Val-D’Or
Servitude
Cadieu
How the Old Man Died
Mélie and the Bull
Les Méchins
Tiresome Company
The Archangel of the Suburb
The Bridge
The Parrot
The Child
The Landscape Painter
The Provinces
La Mi-Carême
Summer Lethe
The Grey Dog
The Dead Cow in the Canyon
 
ENGLISH TALES:
Ulysses
The Sirens
The Buddhist
Animal Husbandry
The Woman Next Door
The Flood
The Parakeet
The Wedding Bouquet
Martine
Martine Continued
Armageddon
The Wool Nightshirt and the Horsehair Tunic
Little William
The Old Heathen
Back to Kentucky
The Sea-Lion
The Jailer’s Son
Black Cargo Ships of War
Little Red Riding Hood
The Pigeon and the Parakeet
The Rope and the Heifer
The Lady from Ferme-Neuve
 
OTHER STORIES:
Chronicle of Anse Saint-Roch
The Witch and the Barleycorn
 
Afterword