— Boy with Bread, by Ozias Leduc (8 October 1864 – 16 June 1955)

 

 

I believe this is the complete list of posts on regionalism, “roman de la terre,” “roman du terroir” I have written so far. They are at times repetitive because I do not know whether or not someone has read earlier posts. Maria Chapdelaine was written by Louis Hémon, a Frenchman, or an outsider. However, it is the one novel interested persons should read. Menaud, maître-draveur (a draveur is a river driver taking lumber logs to their destination) is a very poetical novel. 

 

Louis Hémon, the author of Maria Chapdelaine, sees Quebec as eternal. Such hope is not expressed by Félix-Antoine Savard whose 1937 novel, Menaud, maître-draveur, is embedded in Hémon’s Maria Chapdelaine. Foreigners have come… 

 

As you will notice, I did try to give more descriptive titles to older posts, but failed miserably. Fortunately, my cat said: enough!  He’s in charge, so what could I do. Lists were my solution. 

  

General

• Colonization & the Revenge of the Cradles
• Alexis de Tocqueville on Lower Canada
• The End of Regionalism in Quebec Fiction & Marc-Aurèle Fortin (list of all Canadiana posts)
• The Regionalist Novel in Quebec: Survival
• The Canadien’s Terroir
• Claude-Henri Grignon: Notre culture sera paysanne, ou ne sera pas (1941, letter to André Laurendeau)
• New France: “Once upon a time…”

Fiction

• Germaine Guèvremont’s Le Survenant (1945)
• Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: Ringuet’s Trente arpents (Part Two) (1938)
• Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: Ringuet’s Trente arpents (Part One) (1938)
• Félix-Antoine Savard: Menaud Maître-Draveur: a Metaphysical Land (1937)
• Claude-Henri Grignon: Séraphin, Un Homme et son péché, or Heart of Stone (1933)
• Louis Hémon: Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: Maria Chapdelaine (1914; 1916)
• Louis Hémon: Maria Chapdelaine (1914; 1916) (Louis Hémon)
• Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau‘s Charles Guérin (1846) DCB/DBC
• The Honorable Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (Biography) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• Patrice Lacombe‘s La Terre paternelle (1846) Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Resources

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCE/DBC)
• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Encyclopædia Britannica

 

Armand Bastien

Frescoes/Fresques by Ozias Leduc

© Micheline Walker

15 January 2014

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