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"The Love of Lies" 1989
From: The Quebec Anthology
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The present story, "L’amour du mensonge," translated by David Homel as "The Love of Lies," was first published in XYZ in 1989 and is part of a second collection of linked stories called Vous avez des nouvelks de Baudelaire? (Have You Heard from Baudelaire?).The new series of stories was suggested to Yance by "L’Étranger," one of the stories included in her first collection, in which a short prose poem by Charles Baudelaire haunts the central character and changes her life. "What I am looking for in these new stories," Yance
stated, "is to pit the poems of Baudelaire against contemporary situations and characters, to see what the result will be."
Contributors
Claude-Emmanuelle Yance
Claude-Emmanuelle Yance was born in Quebec City. She moved to the French island of Nouvelle-Calédonie, where she lived for nine years, and then spent two years in Paris before returning to Quebec. Although she acknowledges the influences of the South Pacific as well as of Paris in her linguistic arsenal, it is to the land and the people of Quebec that she responds most fully as a writer. "When I returned to Quebec," she has said, "I understood that what filled me up and made me the kind of writer that I am was the land here, the nature here. I might have fewer words, fewer images, fewer tools at my disposal here, but my territory as a writer, my interior landscape, was created for me in Quebec."
