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Paperback Angéline de Montbrun: A Psychological Romance of Quebec Book

ISBN: 0802062342

ISBN13: 9780802062345

Angeline de Montbrun

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Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d'analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the author of the preface to her book, Abb H.-R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind the pen-name. Her daring in writing a psychological novel was 'forgiven' because she was a woman, and her anticipating the trend towards this type of novel was attributed to 'that intuition natural to her sex.'


In Ang line de Montbrun, Laure Conan broke with what has been called the 'collective romanticism' of nineteenth-century French-Canadian land, with the rural myth, the exhortative tone, and the vast canvas. These concerns are basically absent in her work. Further, she eschewed the details of adventure and intrigue, the wooden, predictable characters, and the transparent intricacies of romantic love in favour of writing about the inner turmoil of an individual, live character, a young woman caught in a complex web of human appetites, aspirations, and relationships. Because of the novel's realism, one of the most persistent topics of discussion about Laure Conan has been whether or not Ang line de Montbrun is autobiographical. Recent studies indicate it may be. In any case, Ang line was the most complex character in Canadian fiction to 1882 and for some time to come.


Traditionally, Ang line de Montbrun was regarded as a novel of Christian renunciation, and Ang line as the most holy of heroines. For a long time no one went too deeply into the relationships between the characters, but in 1961 Jean Le Moyne bluntly stated that 'the lovers in the novel are not Maurice Darville and Ang line, but M. de Montbrun and his daughter.' Since then there has been a proliferation of interpretations and psychological studies of the novel, and there is no going back to the simpler view of it.

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Translation & Introduction by Yves Brunelle

Inside dust jacket: Laure Conan was the first woman noelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d'analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the auther of the preface to her book, Abbe H.R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind the pen-name... In Angeline de Montbrun, L.C. broke with what has been called the "collective romanticism" of 19th century French Canadian literature - the preoccupation with the patriotic love of country and of land... in favour of writing about the inner turmoil of an individual, live character, a young woman caught in a complex web of human appetites, aspirations, and relationships. Recent studies indicate that the novel may be autobiographical. In 1961 Jean Le Moyne bluntly stated that the lovers in the novel are actually M de Montdrun and his daughter. Since then there has been a proliferation of interpretations and psychological studies of the novel...
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