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La part de l'océan
328 pages | 4 septembre 2024 | Couverture : © Murray Fredericks
While submerged in the writing of Moby Dick, Herman Melville made the acquaintance of Nathaniel Hawthorne—an encounter that would rearrange the course of his life, and his novel. This true story survives through a handful of letters which served as the departure-point for La part de l'océan, a book that's like a voyage with neither map nor compass.
Over the course of these pages, a second correspondence unspools between a woman who is retracing the writing of this great American novel and a companion part-real and part-imaginary—a man who is first and foremost a poem. The truth is, writers are composed of three halves; and the third half, headstrong and fragile, is dream. It's to this that we owe this dazzling, lightning-drenched tale, which chronicles the most beautiful of shipwrecks.
Liste préliminaire - Prix des libraires du Québec
Coup de coeur Renaud-Bray
Reviews
Le Devoir
‘The author is interested in absence, in what passes like time, like all these small and large links which found existence, but also and above all in what remains, in letters in particular, fragile witnesses of the past.’
L'actualité
‘Dominique Fortier [...] offers a dazzling new novel.’
La Presse
‘More than ever, Dominique Fortier questions the mystery of creation, writing, reading, as well as the desire between beings and imaginations, in a style that does not weaken, book after book.’
Radio-Canada
‘[Dominique Fortier] touches [...] the complex nature of the links between writers and those who read them.’
