La Sagouine
eBook - ePub

La Sagouine

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

About this book

The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a story! As she reminisces and rants, telling stories about herself, her friends and neighbours, the priest and his church, and every other aspect of life in her village, she is actually telling the story of Acadie.

More than 30 years after its first publication in English, and five years since Wayne Grady completed this new translation, La Sagouine is available in this new, updated edition. Faithfully interpreting Antonine Maillet's distinctive text, Wayne Grady brings out the cultural richness of the language as well as La Sagouine's strength of character and irrepressible humour.

La Sagouine launched the careers of both Antonine Maillet and the actress Viola Léger. With sales of over 100,000 copies, it brought the existence of Acadian literature to a wide and admiring audience.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Antonine Maillet in English translation
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Half Title
  9. On Work
  10. On Youth
  11. On Christmas
  12. On New Year’s
  13. On Lotteries
  14. On Priests
  15. On the Moon
  16. On Pews
  17. On War
  18. On Funerals
  19. On God’s Goodness
  20. On Fortune Telling
  21. On Spring
  22. On the Resurrection
  23. On the Census
  24. On Death
  25. A note on the author and the translator