Rhapsody in Quebec
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Rhapsody in Quebec

On the Path of an Immigrant Child

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rhapsody in Quebec

On the Path of an Immigrant Child

About this book

Born in Hungary in 1975, Akos Verboczy moved to Montreal at the age of 11 with his sister and mother, an esthetician, who learned that in Canada women were willing to pay a fortune ($20) to have their leg hair brutally ripped out. His story begins in Hungary, where at the age of nine he learned that he was a Jew too—"half-Jew" to be more accurate. Unlike some who emigrated from Eastern Europe, Verboczy has no particularly beefs about life "behind the iron curtain." He lands in Montreal as James Brown's Living in America plays and Rocky knocks the Russian communist boxer flat in Rocky IV. The good guys he had learned to like were now officially the bad guys. Once in "America" he discovers that he will be going to French school—after all it is QuĂ©bec—, but then he learns that Canada is the only "place on the planet where there's no prestige in speaking French." In fifty vignettes and tales that belie all the clichĂ©s about immigration to QuĂ©bec, he depicts the experience of embracing a culture and a people who are constantly obliged to reaffirm their right to exist.

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Table of contents

  1. FOREWORD
  2. WHERE I’M FROM
  3. STEP ONE: START BY ARRIVING
  4. WARTBURG BLUES
  5. THE BOYS OF KÁRPÁT STREET
  6. THE DREAMS OF MY MOTHER
  7. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
  8. FAREWELL MY COUNTRY
  9. LIVING IN AMERICA
  10. BACK TO THE FUTURE
  11. THE LANGUAGES WE ARE
  12. AN AMERICAN EPIC
  13. FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
  14. MR. NICOLAS’S CLASS
  15. THE TRIAL
  16. “NIGGER BLACK”
  17. THE HALF-JEW
  18. WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES

  19. THE MAN WHO FAILED
  20. STEP TWO: FIND YOUR WAY
  21. EVERYONE NEEDS A SOUL MATE
  22. GOD, WOODY ALLEN AND ME
  23. THE GAZETTE
  24. FRENCHEMENT BETTER!
  25. THE ENIGMA OF THE RETURN
  26. THE MUSKETEERS
  27. ON QUEEN MARY
  28. THE NOT-SO-NICE DANCE
  29. 1990
  30. THE “QUÉBÉCOIS”
  31. MADAGASCAR POWER
  32. THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ
  33. SNEEDRONNINGEN
  34. HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIES
  35. STEP THREE: ARRIVE AT THE BEGINNING
  36. THE LIFE BEFORE US
  37. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DEPUTY RETURNING OFFICER
  38. THE WORDS OF A MAN OF HIS WORD
  39. MONEY AND ETHNIC VOTES
  40. THE TIME OF THE BUFFOONS
  41. THE HUMAN ZOO
  42. LAND OF OTHERS
  43. MULTICULTURALIZATION
  44. THE PERFECT FOREIGNER
  45. MONTREAL TANGO
  46. NOUS
  47. RUSALKA
  48. THE SHIT RAINS DOWN ON MY HEAD
  49. The Grand Seduction
  50. THE BANALITY OF EVIL
  51. MON PAYS (MY COUNTRY)
  52. WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
  53. WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
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