Each of his books is a literary event in Quebec. The writer Carl Bergeron, born in 1980, was first noticed by
Un cynique chez les lyriques
.
Denys Arcand et le Québec
(Boréal, 2012), a very detailed study of the work of the famous Quebec filmmaker. The young author then gave the public
Voir le monde avec un chapeau
(Boréal, 2016), a journal of his life in Montreal of rare authenticity, an account of aesthetic dissent and a cruel challenge to a Quebec society unfriendly towards those who sacrifice everything to letters. Here it is again today with an astonishing work,
La Grande Marie ou le luxe de sainteté
(Médiaspaul), in bookstores in Quebec since the end of May and now distributed in France.
The writer traces the life of Marie de l'Incarnation, née Marie Guyart (1599-1672), a French missionary who renounced the sweets of her native Touraine to cross the ocean and reach Quebec at the end of the reign of Louis XIII.
This founding figure of New France is also one of the
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