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"Mother Soubert’s Pig" 1944
From: The Quebec Anthology
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A study of primitivism, violence, and eroticism, in which characters struggle, often in vain, against basic and sometimes brutal human passions, it is a startling and disturbing work by a writer whose vision of society differs greatly from that of his contemporaries.
Nevertheless, as "Le cochon de la mère Soubert," translated by Wayne Grady as "Mother Soubert’s Pig," shows, Thériault was among the first Canadian writers to explore some of the fundamental themes of modern literature.
Contributors
Yves Theriault
Born in Quebec City on November 28, 1915, of Montagnais descent, Yves Thériault studied at the École Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal, but at the age of seventeen decided to travel throughout the entire province of Quebec rather than pursue his studies. Subsequently, he worked as a trapper, a cheese merchant, a truck driver, a night-club impresario, a tractor salesman, and a Radio-Canada announcer before turning to writing. He became a scriptwriter for the National Film Board in Ottawa in 1943; the following year his first book of short stories, Contes pour un homme seul, was published in Montreal.
