In 1945 novelist Gabrielle Roy helped create a new direction for francophone literature in Canada with Bonheur d'occasion (translated as The Tin Flute, 1947), a frank and uncompromising examination of...
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Critical Essay by Paula Gilbert Lewis
What Gabrielle Roy has … accomplished in La Route d'Altamont is to place together in a close rapport a young and an old person, both of whom expres...
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Critical Essay by Julia Randall
I have stolen the title of my essay from the Dossiers de Documentation sur la Littérature Canadienne-Française…. But my working title, in bad Fren...
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Critical Essay by Hugo Mcpherson
[The] nature of Gabrielle Roy's vision has … cut her off both from her fellow artists and from the popular audience. The typical heroes of Canadian fict...
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Critical Essay by Phyllis Grosskurth
What in effect [Gabrielle Roy tells is] a fairy-tale. In a fairy tale all manner of misfortunes may befall the protagonists, but we know that they are protected b...
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Critical Essay by Jeannette Urbas
In "Bonheur d'Occasion" poverty is not an incidental factor: it is basic to the situation of every character in the book. Poverty transcends the...
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Critical Essay by Paul Socken
Gabrielle Roy's novels and collections of short stories, from her celebrated first novel Bonheur d'occasion (1945), to the present [Garden in the Wind], fo...
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Critical Essay by Paul Schlueter
The very heterogeneity of Canadian prairie life is well illustrated by [the four tales in Garden in the Wind], two of which deal with Doukhobor and Ukrainian immigran...
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Critical Essay by George Woodcock
There are books so poignant and so intense that it is hard to believe they do not spring out of personal experience, and one's problem is not to determine the...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan M. Weiss
At first glance a reader might think that Ces Enfants de ma vie [Children of My Heart] is a collection of short stories, and indeed Roy does present us with six no...
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