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<\/h3>\nTIME FLIES \u2014 In our relentless race against time, literature stands out as one of the best ways to escape, embrace, slow, rewind or confront it. Certain images make you pause to savour the moment.<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBy Jocelyne Saucier (Coach House Books, 2012)<\/p>\n
Inspired by the deadliest wildfires in Canadian history, which raged in northern Ontario in 1916, this beautiful story\u2014told in many voices by writer Jocelyne Saucier\u2014 is shrouded in an atmosphere of chiaroscuro despite the haunting memories of the flames. Three \u201cfreedom-loving\u201d men live as hermits in a forest that has reasserted itself. However, their tranquility is disturbed by the investigation of a photographer who, too curious about the past of one of their own, disturbs the \u201cdeath pact that adds some spice to life.\u201d You\u2019ll savour an enigmatic, delicate writing inhabited by imposing figures like the pain of old wounds. In September, the work was reborn in the cinematic adaptation by director Louise Archambault (Gabrielle, Trop), who directed a starstudded cast including R\u00e9my Girard, Andr\u00e9e Lachapelle and Eve Landry. A timeless story to (re)discover.<\/p>\n
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By Phoebe Smith (Calm, 2017\u2013present)<\/p>\n
Are you waging war against insomnia? Have you also always wanted to board the Orient Express or probe the mysteries of Moroccan forests? If so, author Phoebe Smith is definitely the writer for you. A world traveller focused on the world\u2019s eternal mysteries, this Brit is the leader of the slow literature movement, which doesn\u2019t try to captivate you until the last page but helps you drift off to sleep. Yes, you read that right! Phoebe Smith, deemed the J.K. Rowling of the movement, uses her travel diaries in Sweden, Nepal and Madagascar to lead us down meditative journeys in collaboration with the Calm app and her Sleep Stories series. The most popular story, \u201cBlue Gold,\u201d is actually narrated by actor Stephen Fry, the narrator of\u2014you guessed it\u2014the Harry Potter audiobooks. His enchanting voice quickly turns soft beds into the lavender fields of Provence. blog.calm.com<\/p>\n
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By Michel Rivard (Spectra Musique, 2019)<\/p>\n
When was the last time you listened to an album in order, from the first to the last\u00a0song, without interruption? Still wielding his guitar and his enveloping melodies, Michel Rivard \u201ccomes up to the foot of the twentieth century,\u201d since \u201cit\u2019s tempting to test time\/ to feel the old days\/ to stretch time along the clothesline in Marquette Alley.\u201d In this book\/CD based on the eponymous show, which has been travelling throughout Quebec since the spring with great success, the singer-songwriter has given us the gift of ten new songs and has opened up about his life with self-deprecating subtlety. As the title suggests, it traces his journey with his \u201cmelancholy mom\u201d and his father with \u201cthe voice of an actor\/ who rarely spoke.\u201d Little Michel wonders about the \u201caccident of love\u201d between them. He is a gifted storyteller\u2014and a revelation even after all these years. Excerpt read and sung by Michel Rivard: icimusique.ca<\/p>\n
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By Antonine Maillet (Lem\u00e9ac, 2019)<\/p>\n
Beau Dommage isn\u2019t the only one looking in the rear-view mirror. The creator of La Sagouine, the irresistible Antonine Maillet, has boldly invited us into \u201cthe waltz in three-quarter time\u201d of her life and to those milestones that we all will pass: \u201cdawn, daylight and dusk.\u201d With \u201cfleeing, capricious, elusive\u201d Time as the sole character, the famous Acadian expresses herself with relentless precision while recounting the lie of the writer in the making, her compassion for Anne Frank (who, like the author, was born in 1929) and her attraction to the margins of existence. An incorrigible dreamer, who writes \u201clike other people breathe,\u201d makes \u00c9vangeline, P\u00e9lagie-la-Charrette, President Mitterrand and her beloved Mecha come alive during historical or fictional interludes, public performances and offerings of scenes from her private life. A timeless gift for yourself.<\/p>\n
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By Jean-Christophe R\u00e9hel (Del Busso, 2018)<\/p>\n
The first novel of a poet praised many times over for his unique voice and disarming humour (Les volcans sentent la coconut, La fatigue des fruits), Ce qu\u2019on respire sur Tatouine introduces us to the author\u2019s alter ego, who, like him, is suffering from cystic fibrosis\u2014but the comparisons stop there. Star Wars fans, hold on before pointing out an unforgivable spelling blunder. Although the anti-hero in question also has an obsession with George Lucas\u2019s franchise and therefore with Tatooine, the desert planet where the Skywalker family originates, he prefers to invent a new one, which is \u201calmost like the real one but just different enough,\u201d to better endure his shifts at a Super C or late-night texts from Amidala, his budding love interest. An ode to the imagination as a bulwark against gloom that plays with the stereotype of the star-crossed poet with an infectious pleasure, this striking book is the most recent winner of the Prix litt\u00e9raire des coll\u00e9giens. And he certainly earned it. Excerpt from the novel read by Emmanuel Schwartz facebook.com\/jcrehel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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