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"The Italian Teacher" 1927
From: The Quebec Anthology
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"Le professeur d’italien," translated as "The Italian Teacher" by Matt Cohen, first appeared in Bernard’s only collection of short stories, La Dame blanche (The White Lady), published in 1927. It is interesting to read this story in light of Bernard’s theories of the importance of regionalism in culture, and in the context of his view that "the French language of the rest of the world . . . is not the language of French Canadians."
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Harry Bernard
Harry Bernard was born in London, England, in 1898, but moved to Canada in early childhood. He studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe and at the Université de Montreal, where he received his Ph.D. in literature in 1948. By then he had already published eight of his ten books, most of which were novels. The first, L'Homme tombé (Fallen Man), appeared in 1924, the year after he left his job as editor and parliamentary correspondent for Le Droit and took up a new position as publisher of the Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe. His other novels include La Maison vide (The Empty House) and La Terre vivante (The Living Earth), both published in 1925; La Ferine despins (Pine Farm), 1930; Juana, mon aimée (Juana My Love), 1931; Dolorès, 1932; and, perhaps his best-known work, Les Jours sont longs (Long Are the Days), which appeared in 1951. He received a Rockefeller Foundation grant in 1943, and was awarded the Prix David three times: in 1924, 1925, and 1931.
