By Michel Tremblay,Sheila Fischman

ISBN-10: 0889225885

ISBN-13: 9780889225886

From the theatre of Euripides to the theatre of Montreal’s major, Michel Tremblay casts a few of his most renowned and unique personae, The Duchess, fantastic Dumas, Jean-le-Décollé and Babalu, in a complete new mild in his new Notebooks. not like his Plateau Mount Royal novels, in which those flamboyant transvestites and their neighborhood of social misfits are noticeable from the point of view of a kid destined to find the defining attribute of his personal otherness as homosexual, the Notebooks are narrated within the voice of a tender girl, and one whose distinction isn't basically made up our minds by means of her sexuality, yet by means of her hugely noticeable actual deformity—Céline Poulin is a midget.

The yr is 1967—Expo—and every person in Montreal is anticipating the nice day once they can stopover at its unique international pavilions. For the characters of The pink laptop, the second one during this trilogy, existence in Montreal has shaken off its conservative glumness as a brand new age arrives. swap is all around the air: politically the Quebec independence flow has been given a massive enhance by way of Charles de Gaulle’s recognized “Vive le Québec libre!” announcement; and issues seriously is not an identical. Céline Poulin, former waitress on the bohemian hangout “Le Sélect,” is now approximately to begin a brand new task: that of hostess in a bordello simply opened via Montreal’s well-known Madame, positive Dumas. Its distinctiveness? the entire “girls” in “Le Boudoir” are transvestites. a few are previous associates of Céline’s who’ll even be her room-mates after she eventually escapes the stifling sadness of her relatives domestic and strikes into their communal boarding house.

Having continually maintained that he doesn't write politics, yet fables, Tremblay celebrates the way it is feasible for Céline to include her distinction and to flourish in harmony with a group of others with transcendent eloquence and compassion.

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