Jacques Poulin

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Jacques Poulin (born September 23, 1937 ) is a French-Canadian writer from the province of Québec .

Poulin studied psychology at the Université Laval in the city of Québec . He initially worked as a translator and university tutor before the success of his second work "Jimmy" allowed him to make a living from writing.

Probably his most successful book is the novel “Volkswagen Blues”, in which the connection between French-Canadian history and that of the entire North American continent is discussed.

Poulin lived in Paris for a long time before returning to Québec.

Works

  • Mon cheval pour un royaume. 1967
  • Jimmy. 1969
  • Le coeur de la baleine bleue. 1970
  • Les grandes marées. 1978
  • Volkswagen Blues. 1984
  • Faites de beaux rêves. 1988
  • Le vieux chagrin. Leméac & Actes Sud, 1989
  • La tournée d'automne. 1993
  • Chat sauvage. 1998
  • Les yeux bleus de Mistassini. 2002
  • La traduction est une histoire d'amour. 2006

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink: Fictions d'un 'conservatisme d'avant-garde'. Regards nostalgiques et poétiques de la décélération dans la littérature québécoise contemporaine (à travers l'œuvre de Jacques Poulin), Journal for Canadian Studies , 2014, pp. 11 - 27 full text
  • Jara Rossenbach: The journey as an identity-building impulse in the Québec novel. Shaker, Aachen 2018 (Zugl. Diss. Phil. TH Aachen ) pp. 177 - 203 (on Volkswagen Blues)
  • Romanciers du Québec: Hubert Aquin , Roch Carrier, Jacques Ferron, Jacques Godbout, Anne Hébert , André Langevin, Jacques Poulin, Gabrielle Roy , Félix-Antoine Savard, Yves Thériault . Québec français, 1980 (first as individual essays in the Zs. Québec français 1974 - 1979, each author approx. 20 pages with a photograph. Texts updated for the book)

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personal data
SURNAME Poulin, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1937