A Picaresque Revenant

Schick, Constance Gosselin

Article on Québec emigrant writer, Rémi Tremblay, and the serialized novel based on his time as a Union soldier in the United States Civil War, "Un Revenant: épisode de la guerre de Sécession." Textual interpretations of Tremblay's perceptions of war, and insights to his fiction based on information gleaned from his autobiography, "Pierre qui roule: souvenirs d'un journaliste." Explorations of Tremblay's portrayal of French Canadian emigration to the US at the turn of the century, and his literary representation of what the author calls "a new Francophone vernacular" (380).

2002-12-00

en

fr

Journal Article

19th century

Canada

United States

0016-111X

French Review

76

2

373-383