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"Mrs. Filly" 1942
From: The Quebec Anthology
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"Madame Pouliche," here translated by David Homel as "Mrs. Filly," first appeared in La Fin du voyage, and in 1962 it was included in Gerard Bessette’s Anthologie Albert Laberge as one of Laberge’s twelve best stories. It is no less starkly realistic than La Scouine, but as Bessette has remarked, "the blackness or degradation that perhaps constitutes a defect in La Scouine may actually be seen as a quality in Laberge’s short stories."
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Albert Laberge
Albert Laberge was born on February 18, 1871, in Beauharnois, the son of a farming family. He was educated in Beauharnois and, later, at the Jesuit Collège du Gesu (Sainte-Marie) in Montreal. In 1891, he suffered a crisis of faith, however, and the following year was expelled for "improper reading" of books on the Index. He subsequently worked in a law office for several years, and in 1896 began writing for La Presse, first as a sports writer and then as an art critic.
