By Roger Lemelin,Michael Gnarowski
The city Below replaced the face of Québécois literature.
The city Below occurs in St. Joseph Parish of Quebec City’s Saint-Sauveur suburb. Saint-Sauveur is a parochial and provincial position the place slender piety and corruption are available in each nook, and Denis and Lise, youth in love, scandalize town with their affair. Scheming politicians and monks and greedy social climbers combine with salt-of-the-earth electorate in a rough-and-tumble satiric attack on pre-Quiet Revolution Quebec mores and attitudes.
The city Below won the Prix David and the Prix de los angeles langue française. Lemelin was once additionally offered Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. A bestseller in Quebec while it initially appeared, The city Below has been known as the "pioneer novel of working-class Quebec" and exploded, with nice controversy, the smothering social and non secular strictures accepted between postwar Québécois. The novel was once first released in English by way of Reynal & Hitchcock in 1948.
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