Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion

Marie Pascal (Western University)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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First circulation or publication 1945

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Canada (Country of Origin)

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Gabrielle Roy’s first novel,

Bonheur d’occasion

[translated by Hannah Josephson as

The Tin Flute

(1947)] was first published in 1945 by the Société des Éditions Pascal. Empowered by its immediate international success, the novel was then published by Beauchemin (1947) and, in France, by Flammarion (1947 and 1948). As the winner of the Femina Prize (1947),

Bonheur d’occasion

will also win the medal of the Académie française (1947) and the newly created Académie canadienne française (1948). From the very beginning, Roy has been seen as the founder of a truly Canadian literature, as her novel focuses on the under-privileged francophone masses of the Montréal

apartheid

(Lemire, 1969, p. 25). Her “roman à moeurs urbaines”, also quoted as the avatar of the “post-war…

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Citation: Pascal, Marie. "Bonheur d'occasion". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 July 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14017, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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