Fictional representations of rural Québec in The Night Manager, Autour d’Éva and Sur la 132
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stéphane Marcotte (0000-0003-3493-0911, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-224 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-8078 • E-ISSN: 0269-9222 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/bjcs.2021.14 |
| OpenAlex | W3204194961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
In John le Carré’s The Night Manager (1993), the main character, Jonathan Pine, after fleeing Cairo and having resided in Zurich and Cornwall, retreats for several months to a remote mining community called Espérance, in the Abitibi region, north of Val d’Or, in the province of Québec. Pine, hiding under the alias of Jacques Beauregard, is hired as a cook at the Château Babette hotel. His stay in Abitibi covers the whole of Chapter 9. He will later pursue his mission in the Bahamas. Le Carré’s humoristic representation of regional Québec contrasts with his darker caricatures of Switzerland, and especially the Bahamas. It also contrasts with the dark portrayal of Québec’s rural regions in Québec novels Autour d’Éva (2016), by Louis Hamelin, and Sur la 132 (2012), by Gabriel Anctil
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |