One land, one author: in Quebec with Antoine Charbonneau-Demers
Audio 29:00
Antoine Charbonneau-Demers, Quebec writer in studio at RFI (October 2020).
© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
30 mins
Winner in Canada of the prestigious Robert-Cliche Prize for
Coco
, his first novel, Antoine Charbonneau-Demers is, at 26, a new strong voice in Quebec literature.
A graduate of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, he is also pursuing an approach in the performing arts.
His second novel
Good Boy
has just been published in France, published by Arthaud.
(Replay)
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French cover of the novel "Good Boy" © Arthaud
"Here, anyway, I could die right away on the sidewalk, and no one would come and lean over my body. No one. My family is an eight hour drive away; the pigeons will have eaten me up before she has time to disembark. "
A student, arrived from his distant province, a young man explores the big city and tries to discover his identity there.
This raw, candid and poetic learning novel is that of the dreams of a generation confronted with sex, desire and love in the anonymity of a large metropolis.
(Presentation of
Arthaud editions
)
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