Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria’s multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma’s outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep sadness, bewitchingly beautiful images, and, ultimately, "the small circle of new beginnings."

Memoria

Literature & Fiction

Dupré, Louise

Contemporary

Dundurn Press

Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. Collectively authored by Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Gail Scott, Louise Cotnoir, Louise Dupré, Lisa Robertson, and Rachel Levitsky. Twenty-five years after its first French language publication, THEORY, A SUNDAY (2013), a collaborative feminist poetics text, marks the first in Belladonna's new Germinal Texts series. Written through Sunday meetings in Montreal, this volume gathers six women's theoretical feminist texts, with a new introduction by Lisa Robertson and afterword by Gail Scott and Rachel Levitsky. Translators of this text include Erica Weitzman, Luise von Flotow, Popahna Brandes, and Nicole Peyrafitte.

Theory, A Sunday

Brossard, Nicole

Scott, Gail

Bersianik, Louky

Cotnoir, Louise

Belladonna*

"One morning, you sat down to write. It was summer... life in full swing, love was in the air... Later, in the afternoon, you heard the one you love pronounce the word illness, and right then fiction faded and was replaced by reality. You wept" - from The Blueness of Light.

The Blueness of Light: Selected Poems (1) (Essential Poets series)

Poetry

Guernica Editions Inc.

Beyond The Flames (19) (Essential Translations Series)

A woman has her cat euthanised, a decision that causes her to become aware of her ability to kill. She writes, hand haunted by history, and returns to the forgotten memory of the time when her ancestors were animals. By writing, she tries to understand the psyche and its obvious manifestations of cruelty, which she sees every day in the media: rapes, murders, bombings of civilians, indifference towards the powerless, humans and animals that are made to suffer without remorse. This book is a cry provoked by existential questions: how to deal with the wickedness in the world, how to see one's own wickedness without sinking into despair. By writing, by openness to others, by compassion, she seems to be able to face life believing that, if she recognises the presence of evil both in her and in the world, she will be able to respond by standing among the living.

The Haunted Hand (46) (Essential Translations Series)

Guernica Editions

In this memoir, the distinguished feminist author and poet Louise Dupré conjures up the tragedies and joys of her mother's life--and does so not only in the personal context of the family but as a woman of her time in the dramatically changing backdrop of Quebec before, during, and after the heady days of the Quiet Revolution. A compelling read that will expand your understanding of the complexity of Quebec society over the past century, as well as your appreciation of the great, wise, and compassionate Louise Dupré.

A Woman of Her Time: Memories of My Mother

Parenting & Relationships

Linda Leith Publishing

Just Like Her (Tout comme elle, in French) is a searing and daring work of poetry, written for the theatre, about the inevitability of loss and the enduring nature of love. In four acts Dupré‚ explores the difficult, painful, yet necessary separation of daughter and mother. In each act, we hear the voice of a daughter speak: of the relationship with the mother, of feeling unloved in her differences from the mother, of giving birth herself to a daughter, and of observing her own teenage daughter, who ... just like her. The poems are followed by a conversation between Louise Dupré‚ and acclaimed Quebec theatre director Brigitte Haentjens about writing, women, theatre and life. In June 2011, Brigitte Haentjens will be directing the English-language premiere of the play iTout Comme Elle/i at Luminato the Toronto Festival of Arts + Creativity.

Just like her

Dramas & Plays

Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.

TOUT COMME ELLE

Québec/Amérique

Il m'arrive souvent de chercherun peu de paixcar je ne sais pluspour qui bat mon coeur

Les Mots Secrets (New Poetry, 3) (French Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Pouliot, Jean-Benoit

LA Courte Echelle

Chambres (Connivences) (French Edition)

Editions du Remue-ménage

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