Les belles-soeurs by Tremblay, Michel

Germaine Lauzon has won a million trading stamps from a department store. Her head swimming with dreams of refurbishing and redecorating her working-class home from top to bottom with catalogue selections ranging from new kitchen appliances to “real Chinese paintings on velvet,” she invites fourteen of her friends and relatives in the neighbourhood over to help her paste the stamps into booklets.Raucous, reckless and rude, the women shamelessly share their most secret hopes and fears, complain stridently about their friends and relatives, fantasize wistfully about escaping the misogynist drudgery of their lives and surreptitiously tuck most of the stamps into their purses and clothing, self-righteously appropriating what they consider to be Germaine’s “illegitimate” good fortune.While earlier attempts had been made to stage the realities of Québécois life using colloquial language and a realist backdrop of working-class Montréal, these populist hits were considered rustic and anomalous, while “real” (Parisian) French continued to dominate theatre and “high culture” until the end of the 1950s.As Québec searched for a new socio-political identity and a language that could articulate its rapidly emerging post-colonial reality throughout the “quiet revolution,” Michel Tremblay struggled to find an authentic Québécois voice. Written in 1965, it took three years for him get a first production of Les Belles Soeurs in 1968. Premiering at the Théâtre du Rideau-Vert in the same year that René Lévesque founded the nationalist Parti Québécois, this first of what was to become more than a dozen plays in Tremblay’s Cycle of Les Belles Soeurs became an overnight success. In one fell stroke, Joual, the distinctive Québec vernacular that had evolved over centuries since the end of French colonial rule had been legitimized, and Michel Tremblay, much like Chaucer in English and Dante in Italian, had become “the father of the Québécois language.”

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers.European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels* Short Stories* Belles-Lettres* Short Prose Forms* Dramatic Works* Poetry* Anthologies* And moreSelected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods.Additional MetadataPrimary Id: B0478302PSM Id: NCCOF0063-C00000-B0478302DVI Collection Id: NCCOC0062Bibliographic Id: NCCO005273MCODE: 4UVCOriginal Publisher: Lugan, libraire-éditeurOriginal Publication Year: 1829Original Publication Place: ParisOriginal Imprint Manufacturer: Imprimerie de Plassan et CieVariant TitlesDeux belles soeursSubjectsFrench fiction -- 19th century.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers.European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels* Short Stories* Belles-Lettres* Short Prose Forms* Dramatic Works* Poetry* Anthologies* And moreSelected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods.Additional MetadataPrimary Id: B0478301PSM Id: NCCOF0063-C00000-B0478301DVI Collection Id: NCCOC0062Bibliographic Id: NCCO005273Reel: 3083MCODE: 4UVCOriginal Publisher: Lugan, libraire-éditeurOriginal Publication Year: 1829Original Publication Place: ParisOriginal Imprint Manufacturer: Imprimerie de Plassan et CieVariant TitlesDeux belles soeursSubjectsFrench fiction -- 19th century.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers.European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels* Short Stories* Belles-Lettres* Short Prose Forms* Dramatic Works* Poetry* Anthologies* And moreSelected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods.Additional MetadataPrimary Id: B0478304PSM Id: NCCOF0063-C00000-B0478304DVI Collection Id: NCCOC0062Bibliographic Id: NCCO005273MCODE: 4UVCOriginal Publisher: Lugan, libraire-éditeurOriginal Publication Year: 1829Original Publication Place: ParisOriginal Imprint Manufacturer: Imprimerie de Plassan et CieVariant TitlesDeux belles soeursSubjectsFrench fiction -- 19th century.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers.European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels* Short Stories* Belles-Lettres* Short Prose Forms* Dramatic Works* Poetry* Anthologies* And moreSelected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods.Additional MetadataPrimary Id: B0478303PSM Id: NCCOF0063-C00000-B0478303DVI Collection Id: NCCOC0062Bibliographic Id: NCCO005273MCODE: 4UVCOriginal Publisher: Lugan, libraire-éditeurOriginal Publication Year: 1829Original Publication Place: ParisOriginal Imprint Manufacturer: Imprimerie de Plassan et CieVariant TitlesDeux belles soeursSubjectsFrench fiction -- 19th century.

Le 3e homme Ginette est une petite femme craintive de quatre-vingt-sept ans. Résidant dans une cité, elle est témoin du meurtre de son amie Danielle. Les Soeurs Faquelle-Girard En 1969, le fiancé de Claudine Faquelle décède. L'inspecteur suspecte immédiatement les deux sœurs Faquelle-Girard, tout juste installées à Clamart. Leurs plus belles vacances Un couple d'âge mûr passe une nuit à Zurich.

Les auteurs francophones vivent et écrivent souvent dans des contextes plurilingues; ainsi, un des traits marquants des littératures francophones est de placer au coeur de la problématique identitaire une réflexion sur la langue et sur la manière d’articuler les rapports entre la langue et la littérature. La complexité de ces rapports, généralement conflictuels donne lieu à des formes de «surconscience linguistique» (Gauvin 1997). Quatre oeuvres provenant d’aires francophones fort différentes et leur traduction respectives ont été analysés (Les belles-soeurs, Nuit de silence à Tanger, Les soleils des indépendance, Texaco). Cette étude vise à saisir de quelle façon il est possible de traduire les rapports sociolinguistiques entre les langues. Les difficultés et les stratégies mises en place par les traducteurs italiens ont été analysées grâce à l’élaboration d’un modèle d’analyse qui considère: le contexte de la création de l’oeuvre; la représentation de l’oeuvre face au public cible;les signifiés dénotatifs et connotatifs des lexèmes diatopiquement marqués et des néologismes d’auteur; les techniques de traduction employées. Conséillé aux traducteurs, traductologues, linguistes.