Monique Proulx

Ce sont des nouvelles, textes courts et incisifs, tous soigneusement taillés dans l'insupportable banalité des drames et des lieux. Le livre se compare à une petite mosaïque de pierres multicolores. Chacune conserve sa couleur rare et la forme unique de sa froide minéralité. L'ensemble n'en constitue pas moins un vivant portrait de Montréal, une effrayante collection de spécimens humains, un tableau prodigieux de cacophonie et de tristesse nordique (...). (...) il faut lire sans hésiter les Aurores Montréales. Pour apprivoiser l'atrocité. Pour attiser la fureur. Pour savourer le bonheur d'une écriture souveraine aux portes de la barbarie. Enfin parce que ces nouvelles s'ajustent de manière à former un livre, ce qui n'est pas toujours évident quand on rassemble des histoires dont chacune soutient si facilement sa propre unité.

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Les aurores montréales

Wildlives

Camille Deslauriers is an eleven-year-old girl whose coming of age is complicated by a very particular problem: not only are her parents separated, but her father has, through a series of operations, become a woman. Also an award-winning film, Sex of the Stars is very contemporary, very urban fiction, in which loneliness, sexual identity and the need and desire for love and acceptance are explored with wit, elegance and intense humanity.

Sex of the Stars

Winner of the Prix Qu�bec-Paris, the Qu�bec Bookstores' Prize and the Prix Litt�raire Desjardins, Invisible Man at the Window is the bizarre and compelling tale of a group of artists and hangers-on whose lives cross in the attic apartment of a painter called Max. Through a series of chapters in the form of "portraits," Max, a paraplegic, lays bare the psyches of those who would surround him, pamper him, love him either because or in spite of his handicap.

Invisible Man at the Window

Monique Proulx's last novel, Invisible Man at the Window, was first published in English in 1994. Following that is this brilliant, complex, witty, moving book about writing and writers. It was nominated for a 2002 Governor General's award when it was first published in French. Florence doesn't like writers -- they're so full of hang-ups -- and she likes their books even less, those corpulent things that aren't even true. She only likes Zeno, but she'll never admit it, even under pain of death. Zeno is her partner in their small website construction business, Mahone Inc., which has the brilliant idea of putting lesser-known artists and writers back in the limelight. Zeno, on the other hand, loves writers, especially Pierre Lalibert�, the mysterious and mythic novelist who lives like a recluse while awards and trophies tarnish and gather dust waiting for him. Because of Zeno, because of a stolen sentence, Florence finds herself following a trail that could lead her to Pierre Lalibert�, this impostor who pillages other people's lives as inspiration for his novels. Proulx plays with the mystery genre, to write about literature and those who create it. But above all this is a book whose engaging characters pull us into their lives.

Monique Proulx

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