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"A Case of Sorcery" 1963
From: The Quebec Anthology
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"L’Enchantement," translated here as "A Case of Sorcery" by David Homel, is from Ceux du Chemin-Taché (1963). "It took me many years to realize just how much that barren piece of land had left its mark on me," Thério told Donald Smith in an interview published in L’Écrivain devant son oeuvre (1983; Voices of Deliverance, 1986). Though its origins are in early folktales of magic fiddles, "A Case of Sorcery" is also about how a country can be transformed by art.
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Adrien Thério
Born in Saint-Modeste, near Rivière-du-Loup on the lower St. Lawrence, on August 15, 1925, Adrien Thério was five when his family moved thirty miles inland, to the Chemin-Taché that appears in many of his short stories (including "A Case of Sorcery"). He began his studies at the Séminaire de Rimouski in 1947, later spent four years in a sanitorium recovering from a respiratory illness, then attended the University of Ottawa and Université Laval, where he received his doctorate in literature. He began his teaching
