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Georges Bugnet - Forest, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Forest

A Translation of La forêt

Av Georges Bugnet

Del 10 i serien French Writers of Canada Series

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Originally published in French as La forêt in 1935, Georges Bugnet’s The Forest is a lyrical and haunting portrait of pioneering life in northern Alberta. Drawing on Bugnet’s own experience as a homesteader, the novel captures both the promise of the Canadian West and the immense challenges faced by those who sought to build a life there.Arriving from France filled with optimism and romantic hopes, a young couple sets out to create a home in a wilderness they initially imagine as their own garden of paradise. Instead, they encounter isolation, hardship, and a natural world indifferent to human ambition. As their dreams confront the realities of settlement, their struggle becomes a powerful meditation on survival, loss, and the limits of humanity’s control over its environment.At the heart of The Forest is Bugnet’s extraordinary vision of nature. Beautiful and destructive, intimate and immense, the northern Alberta landscape emerges as a force in its own right. Through vivid and evocative prose, Bugnet explores humanity’s relationship with the natural world and the humility demanded by its power.Presented here in David Carpenter’s English translation, The Forest brings an important work of French-Canadian and Western Canadian literature to English-language readers.
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Georges-Charles-Jules Bugnet (1879-1981) was a Canadian and French writer, journalist and horticulturist. He is one of the major French writers of Western Canada. During a life which spanned 101 years he published four novels in addition to short stories, essays and poems. He was born in France in 1879 at Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgandy, and was educated at the Université du Dijon and the Sorbonne. In 1904, at the age of 25, he came to Canada with his young wife, Julia. In 1905 after working in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, where their first son, Charles, was born they moved to St. Albert, Alberta. In March 1906 they took up their homestead near Lac Majeau, 80 km northwest of Edmonton, in an area later named Rich Valley. Bugnet is best known for his novel, La Forêt (935) trans. The Forest (1976). This is one of the earliest examples of realism in Canadian literature and reflects Bugnet’s fascination with living in the forest and its affects on human behaviour. When he published his first two novels, Les Lys de sang (1922) and Nipsya (1924) he used the pen-name, Henri Doutremont.

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