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6/21/04

MODERN QUÉBEC NOVEL IS TOPIC OF SLU PROF'S BOOK

CANTON – A new book by St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor of French 
Roseline Tremblay is a study of the contemporary Québécois novel.
	L’Écrivain imaginaire. Essai sur le roman québécois: 1960-1995 or The 
Imaginary Writer: A Study of the Québec Novel (1960-1995), has been published 
by Hurtubise in Montreal. 
	According to Tremblay, the volume is a reference text on the contemporary 
Québec novel for students, professors and expert readers. The particular 
topic – the study of the writer as a character – gave Tremblay "the opportunity 
to consider 35 years of Québec literature and to analyze very carefully more 
than 20 novels. The study of this figure, typical in modern literature, allowed 
me to approach the major preoccupations of postmodernism, transforming what 
could have been a formal study into a wide sociological and historical study 
of the recent institutionalization of Québec prose."
      In the book, Tremblay applies a new methodological tool, the sociogram, 
to provide thorough explanations and definitions of all its terminology. Work 
by authors Hubert Aquin, Jacques Godbout, Yolande Villemaire, Jacques Poulin, 
Michel Tremblay  and other essential writers of contemporary Québec is explored 
in the book.
	Tremblay earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree from the 
University of Urbino in Italy. She also holds a law degree from the University 
of Montreal Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris and the 
University of Québec in Montreal. 

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