Voices in Time

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives: his older cousin Timothy Wellfleet, a Montreal TV journalist at the time of the 1970 War Measures Act, and his stepfather, Conrad Dehmel, a German scholar struggling to keep his Jewish fiancée and himself safe from Hitler's Gestapo. Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story.

Hugh.Maclennan

Penguin

Voices in time

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The title refers to the Oedipus legend of the sphinx which made cities sick, tore families asunder, and set sons against fathers and daughters against mothers. Set in Montreal and Ottawa, Return of the Sphinx illuminates the conflict between Alan Ainslie, idealist, patriot, intellectual, and his son Daniel, a young revolutionary Quebec separatist. It is combined with the tender love affair between young Chantal Ainslie and Gabriel Fleury, friend and contemporary of her father.

Return the Sphinx

Literary

Macmillan of Canada

The Watch That Ends the Night (Laurentian Library, 32)

Macmillian of Canada

Each Man's Son

Macmillan

General

<p>A student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel provide fascinating insights into his life's pursuit of writing and offer another glimpse of the author of Two Solitudes.</p>

Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan-Engel Correspondence

History

Marian Engel

Americas

University of Ottawa Press

Two Solitudes (Chinese Edition)

Guangdong Flower City Publishing House

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