What a great gift to give yourself, this sum of more than 2000 pages by Jacques Brault, superbly published in the “Bibliotheque du Nouveau Monde” collection! This edition is due to the meticulous work of François Dumont, who must be thanked for his passion. This set, proposed as a “reading” edition, and not a “scholarly” edition, covers already published works, to which are added some unpublished works, and does justice as never before to the voice of Brault, a voice to be placed among the greats of our literature . Proses and poems encourage us to follow the “path” so dear to the author. François Dumont’s sober preface is more about clarity than about apology. Its usefulness is major in placing both the man and the work in their rightful place. Over the course of these four volumes, we revisit Below the admirablethe great text around Alain Grandbois, Agony, Unveilinguntil its ultimate For ever. Twenty-six books in all, a breath of great memory. Here we are, according to Dumont’s very beautiful phrase, “between death and life, between the self and the other, between speech and silence, between anguish and hope”.
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