Roch Carrier was born to Georges and Marie-Anna Tanguay Carrier on 13 May 1937. His birthplace, the village of Sainte-Justine-de-Dorchester, southeast of Quebec City near the Maine border, is the sett...
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Critical Essay by Ronald Sutherland
Floralie, où es-tu, filled with boisterous, ribald humour and stylistic fireworks, is another impressive accomplishment—a genuine relief from the ago...
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Critical Essay by Joan Harcourt
La Guerre, Yes Sir! and Floralie, Where Are You? are much more alike in mood than Is It The Sun, Philibert? … is to either of the others. The action of the firs...
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Critical Essay by Robert J. Green
La Guerre, Yes Sir! is a first novel of staggering sophistication and control, proving that there now exists in Montreal a major international writer….
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Critical Essay by Nancy I. Bailey
[A closer look at La Guerre, Yes Sir!] suggests that its wide appeal may come less from a regional social realism than from the universal themes around which Carrier...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Gibson
Roch Carrier's trilogy, of which Is It the Sun, Philibert? is the last part and the newest Dark Age, drives on remorselessly from rural Quebec to the civilizat...
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Critical Essay by Brian Vintcent
They Won't Demolish Me! is not only a fantastic farce full of the most extraordinary comic invention. It deals with more than the funny antics of a group of od...
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Critical Essay by Emile J. Talbot
The point of view in Roch Carrier's brilliant sixth novel [Il n'y a pas de pays sans grand-père] is that of Vieux-Thomas, once a vigorous man, n...
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Roch Carrier
Critical Essay by Ronald Sutherland
