Never heard of Victor-Levy Beaulieu.
Think I want to leave it that way.
Apparently, he's big enough shit to win prizes.
"...In its report on the prize, Radio-Canada refers briefly to VLB’s 2008 threat to burn his
own books. That was to protest against growing bilingualism and multilingualism
in Quebec and against the insufficient ardor of the independence movement...."
But then again, as I've been writing about lately, Quebec's "intellectual" classes is filled with myopic bozos like this. At the end of the line, the intellectualism is just tribal nationalism.
They feel they will grow by suppressing something else. Ah, but Mordecai Richler insults us!! Doesn't he know you can live in Quebec without ever speaking a lick of English?
Seriously. They use this strawman as a justification in part, for the repressive language laws and rhetoric.
/Krusty the Klown groan.
Imagine an American novelist railing like this.
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