Agoak: The legacy of Agaguk

Thériault, Yves

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Agaguk [paperback] Theriault, Yves [Jan 01, 1967]

Agaguk

Ryerson Press

Ashini is the fictionalized autobiography of a Montagnais Indian hunter and nomad; it explores his relationship with nature and his own kind, as well as his reactions to white civilization. The solution which Ashini invents for his own and his people's dilemma is as logical as it is unexpected.

Ashini (French Writers of Canada Series)

Reference

Harvest House

W. Donald Wilson and Paul G. Socken’s translation of Aaron, by QuÃ©bÃ©cois author Yves ThÃ©riault, makes this fine novel available in English for the first time. An exploration of “otherness,” the story centres on Moishe, an Orthodox Jew and refugee from Russia, who is raising his grandson, Aaron, alone in Montreal, following the deaths of Aaron’s parents. Poverty-stricken, Moshe works as a tailor, maintains his strict adherence to Orthodoxy, and educates Aaron to follow in his path. Aaron becomes increasingly estranged from his grandfather’s ways, however, and his meeting with the militantly secular Jewish girl Viedna confirms his decision to embrace modernity, secularism, and materialism and to reject his faith entirely. The story portrays a tragically polarized situation in which neither side is able to communicate or to build an alternative world view that incorporates both tradition and modernity. Possibly ThÃ©riault’s finest novel, Aaron is a parable of our modern world and a poignant cautionary tale.

Aaron

Literary

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

AGOAK L HERITAGE D AGAGUK (French Edition)

Genre Fiction

Editions Internationales A. St

Agaguk (French Edition)

Quebec 10/10

Type

Ashini (French Edition)

Bibliotheque Quebecoise

Comics & Graphic Novels

Manga

Glénat

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