Régine Robin was a professor, researcher and celebrated author of many essays, novels and short stories published over nearly five decades. Since the publication of her first novel,
LaQuébécoite(1982), Robin became a key figure in the literary phenomenon of “migrant writing” in Quebec. The questions of memory, identity and culture, which are explored in a unique way in
La Québécoite,
return in many of her other works:
L’Immense Fatigue des pierres[The Immense Fatigue of Stones] (1996),
Le Golem de l’écriture: de l’autofiction au cybersoi[The Golem of Writing: From Autofiction to Cyberself] (1997),
La Mémoire saturée[The Saturated Memory] (2003) and
Nous autres, les autres[We, the Others] (2011), to name a few. Robin was very much appreciated for her…
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Citation: Perić, Katarzyna. "Régine Robin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 July 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13616, accessed 24 November 2024.]
