Marian Engel's Notebooks: "Ah, Mon Cahier, Écoute..."

ISBN-13: 9780889203495 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 576 str.

Marian Engel

Opis

Marian Engel emerged as a writer during that period in Canada when nationalism increased and new feminism dawned. Although she is recognized as a distinguished woman of letters, she has not been widely studied; consequently we know relatively little about her and her craft. The material collected in "Marian Engel s Notebooks: Ah, mon cahier, ecoute... " is a major step in redressing that neglect.

Extracts carefully chosen by Christl Verduyn from Marian Engel s forty-nine notebooks notebooks Engel began in the late 1940s and which she maintained until her death in 1985 track Engel s creative development, illustrate her commitment to the craft of writing and document her growth as a major Canadian writer. The notebooks also portray Engel s surprising leaps of logic, her fascination with the bizarre, the eclecticism of her reading and the depth and variety of her thinking. Finally, they present moving documentation of a woman facing cancer and early death.

Christl Verduyn s illuminating introductory discussions to each of the notebooks unobtrusively guide us in the reading of these sometimes difficult writings. "Marian Engel s Notebooks: Ah, mon cahier, ecoute... " leaves readers with a vivid sense of Canadian culture during the 1960s and 1970s. It provides insight into the literary life of one of Canada s significant woman writers, including her connections with other Canadian writers, and will be of special interest to scholars working in the field of literature. "