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• W4206261217 abstract "instinctual. The seemingly casual interaction between the characters, and the insatiable desire of some of these characters to rise above their circumstances, is what encompasses the spirit of the book. One human action follows and exacerbates another in an endless progression of base self-interest. Yet there is a moral to this progression, one that cannot be ignored as the hero/antihero slides into an inevitable sky-fall toward his destiny. Gringo is a hero in his neighborhood, a teenager who has admiring followers and, at the same time, vociferous detractors. His behavior and his attitude are egocentric bordering on sociopathic , and while blaming society and even his victims for what befalls him and them, he does have momentary feelings of regret for his actions. The title The Black Cathedral has various significances. While there is a physical cathedral being built as a backdrop to the human activities, the cataclysm is in the influence the cathedral, and those associated with it, have on the wider community. The desire to build this massive cathedral comes from Arturo Stuart, the father of a small family that moves to the area from elsewhere. The presence of the individual family members on Gringo and other townspeople impels the former to acts which otherwise might not have occurred. Friends turn against friends, and murder and mayhem ensue. It would appear that the presence of both the Stuart family and the ensuing cathedral build in Punta Gótica (and its environs) has been infected by a black cloud. Is it a black-colored building , or is it only for black people? How can the building of a place of worship cause the release of negative or black thoughts in the populace? The passage of time is also interesting as it spreads across decades that are only glimpsed by the occasional comment as teens turn into adults and adults become elderly. Some of the characters are murdered , others become murderers, and even others find solace in the bridge between reality and the spirit world. This is a thought-provoking book with more questions than obvious answers, and it leaves the reader hanging. Janet Mary Livesey Norman, Oklahoma Hélène Dorion Pas même le bruit d’un fleuve Québec. Alto. 2020. 184 pages. “LIKE A BRIDGE over troubled waters,” Hélène Dorion watches over the flow of words-thoughts-images-emotions that carries Hanna through her discovery of family secrets. She delimits Pas même le bruit d’un fleuve (Not even the sound of a river) with quotations from twenty poets positioned as titles for the novel and its chapters. She uses external texts to rhythm her own prose: a casualties list, newspaper clippings of fluvial tragedies on the Saint-Laurent River, and notebooks, poems, postcards, and pictures left by Hanna’s mother, Simone. In this polysemic message, Dorion and Hanna compete for the narrative voice as Hanna speaks sometimes in the first person and sometimes in the third person, in a subtly unsettling shift between autobiography and fiction. Finally, Hanna’s understanding of her emotional meanderings comes through her friend Juliette’s words. Who, then, is the novel’s main character? Dorion, Hanna, her mother Simone, her grandmother Eva, or her friend Juliette? As Hanna travels to Simone’s hometown after her mother’s death, a four-hour riverbank drive from Montréal to Kamouraska, both the river and the family story widen. Little by little, Hanna connects her memories of Eva and Simone to “The Majestic ,” as the Saint-Laurent is called. Eva and Simone lost their fiancés, their first loves, to the river. Both settled for loveless marriages to avoid bringing shame to their families. Social mores are evoked in filigree, Mavis Gallant–like, through two world wars and the plight of immigrants. The result is a collective portrait of womanhood with a feminist concern for the domestic and sexual constraints of early twentieth-century Québecois society collared by Roman Catholic morality. Dorion’s description of love’s phantom pains buried in deep silence is masterful. A river of immigrants’ arrivals and soldiers ’ departures, the Saint-Laurent has rhythmed the lives of Québecois people from the beginining..." @default.
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