Catherine Lalonde

Fiction. Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei. A modern-day fable and feminist bildungsroman, THE FAERIE DEVOURING tells the story of the sprite, her absent mother (who dies in childbirth), and a brood of fatherless boys all raised by Gramma, a stalwart matriarch and wicked faerie godmother. From her rural childhood with its crudeness and toil to an urban rebellion with its glittering pleasures, the sprite struggles with and ultimately overcomes the burden of genealogy. A literary spell cast by the daring and critically-acclaimed Quebecois author Catherine Lalonde and reimagined by the award-winning poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei, this feral incantation comes alive through disenchantment, desire, phantasmagoria, defiant imagination, and unruly language.

The Faerie Devouring

Entre le conte de fées enragé et la reprise hallucinée des récits d’apprentissage, entre la forêt de Sainte-Amère-de-Laurentie et la grande ville électrique, La dévoration des fées raconte le sort de la p’tite, de Grand-maman et de Blanche absente. Mais le récit est ravalé par le chant, le mythe, la fantasmagorie, et une poésie féroce et primordiale hante la narration. Œuvre baroque et mal embouchée, La dévoration des fées est traversé de sortilèges crachés ou lyriques, dans une scansion affamée, bourrée jusqu’aux yeux de désir.

Catherine Lalonde

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