Description
Marian Engel emerged as a creator throughout that duration in Canada while nationalism larger and “new feminism” dawned. Even though she is identified as a outstanding lady of letters, she has now not been extensively studied; because of this we all know somewhat little approximately her and her craft. The fabric accrued in Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “Ah, mon cahier, écoute…” is an immense step in redressing that forget.
Extracts sparsely selected via Christl Verduyn from Marian Engel’s 40-9 notebooks ― notebooks Engel started within the overdue Forties and which she maintained till her demise in 1985 ― observe Engel’s ingenious building, illustrate her dedication to the craft of writing and report her enlargement as an immense Canadian creator. The notebooks additionally painting Engel’s unexpected leaps of common sense, her fascination with the extraordinary, the eclecticism of her studying and the intensity and number of her pondering. In spite of everything, they provide transferring documentation of a lady going through most cancers and early demise.
Christl Verduyn’s illuminating introductory discussions to each and every of the notebooks unobtrusively information us within the studying of those now and again tricky writings. Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “Ah, mon cahier, écoute…” leaves readers with a bright feel of Canadian tradition throughout the Sixties and Seventies. It supplies perception into the literary lifetime of certainly one of Canada’s vital lady writers, together with her connections with different Canadian writers, and shall be of different pastime to students operating within the box of literature.
