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Gabrielle Roy Information
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 Gabrielle Roy, CC , FRSC (March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author. Born in Saint Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy. After training as a teacher at The Winnipeg Normal School, she taught...



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 Manitoba History
Gabrielle Roy: a life.
09/22/2000: 1,284 words, approx. 4 pages Francois Ricard, Gabrielle Roy: A Life, translated by Patricia Claxton, Toronto:McLelland and Stewart, 1999, 600 pp. ISBN, 0-77107-7451-4, $35.00. Francois Ricard, Professor of French literature at McGill, is the author of several books such as La Litterature contre ellememe, 1985 (Governor General's...
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 Quebec Studies
Gabrielle Roy inedite.
03/22/2001: 627 words, approx. 2 pages RICARD, FRANCOIS and JANE EVERETT, eds. Gabrielle Roy inedite. (Collection Seminaires). Quebec: Editions Nota bene, 2000. Pp. 232. The essays in this collection were initially presented at a seminar that took place at McGill University on September 25, 1998. In the introduction,...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Hugo Mcpherson
1,966 words, approx. 7 pages
 [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 fiction are intellectuals who search loquaciously for their own identity or Canada's, or "superior" observers who smile condescendingly at Canadian manners, or various sorts of crusaders, pioneers and rebels who face life boldly and bring it triumphantly to heel. Gabrielle Roy knows that such exceptional people do exist, but he...
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Critical Essay by Phyllis Grosskurth
1,923 words, approx. 6 pages
 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 by magic talismans…. Her characters are shielded from the encounter with the stalking familiar. They are treated as children not yet capable of venturing into the more sombre areas of existence. Essentially Gabrielle Roy possesses a mother's-eye view of the world. The area of action in which her characters move is limited and condition...
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Critical Essay by Paula Gilbert Lewis
1,135 words, approx. 4 pages
 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 express a deep need to communicate and to understand one another. In the four "short stories" that compose what the author has classified as a novel, the reader sees a narrator, Christine, first as an eight-year-old child in her relationships with her eighty-year-old grandmother and then with the eighty-four-year-old Monsieur Sanit-Hilaire, ...


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