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"Part II of Children of My Heart" 1979

From: The Quebec Anthology

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Although Ces enfants de ma vie (1977), translated by Alan Brown in 1979 as Children of My Heart, has also been called both memoir and novel, it transcends genre classification, just as its author transcends regional analysis. Alan Brown’s fascination with Roy’s work has spanned four decades: his essay "Gabrielle Roy and the Temporary Provincial" appeared in the first issue of the literary magazine Tamarack Review in 1956, and he retranslated The Tin Flute in 1984. The following story is Part II of Children of My Heart, and whether memoir or fiction it is a superbly selfcontained story, and arguably Roy’s most fully realized work of literature. As Hugo Macpherson has noted, "Gabrielle Roy feels rather than analyses, and a sense of wonder and mystery is always with her."

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Gabrielle Roy

Gabrielle Roy was born on Rue Deschambault, in St. Boniface, Manitoba, on March 22, 1909. Her father was a colonization agent for the federal government, responsible for bringing immigrants from the east and Europe into Saskatchewan (her short story "Ely! Ely! Ely!" describes this period). Upon the death of her father in 1927, she entered the Winnipeg Normal School and taught in St. Boniface until 1937, when she went to England to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1939, with the impending war, she returned to Canada, settling in Montreal and working as a journalist, first for Le Jour, then for La Revue moderne.