“Our meeting places”, by Gérald Gaudet

Gérald Gaudet continues his project of forming “a living literary history” with Our meeting places, a new collection of interviews carried out in recent years with some important figures of the essay in Quebec — in other words, writers who think. Very different voices, chosen by affinities, express, in dense and lively interviews, their intimate relationship with thought and literature. If for Mathieu Bélisle literature is “the domain par excellence of impurity”, Marie-Hélène Voyer says she seeks to build “a cabin of words”, “a refuge for ideas”. Frédérique Bernier, for her part, sees writing as a “makeshift shelter”, while Kateri Lemmens believes that “the essay is a thought in pursuit of itself”. We will also find Jean Désy, Gabrielle Giasson-Dulude, Dalie Giroux, Paul Chanel Malenfant, Pierre Nepveu, Charles Sagalane and Érika Soucy.

Our meeting places Interviews on the literary essay

★★★ 1/2

Under the direction of Gérald Gaudet, Nota Bene, Montreal, 2024, 294 pages

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