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Claude-Henri Grignon - Woman and the Miser, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Woman and the Miser

A Translation of Un homme et son péché

Av Claude-Henri Grignon

Del 33 i serien French Writers of Canada Series

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The novel, The Woman and the Miser (Un homme et son péché) is built aroud the characters of the 'habitant' userer Séraphin Poudrier and his attractive young wife Donalda. The impact of Grignon's characterization is so striking that the word 'Séraphin' has penetrated the common speech of French Canadians to mean a stingy avaricious person. / Séraphin's influence is all-pervasive; while following his sinuous career we get many intimate glimpses into the life of a typical Laurentian community. / Séraphin is obsessed by the love of money; he virtually starves his young wife and deprives her of medical care so that she dies prematurely. Into his calculating net fall many members of his family; even more of his neighbors are prey to his predatory money-lending practices. / As Roger Duhamel has written: 'Séraphin Poudrier is l'harpagon or Père Grandet of the back concessions. In effect a universal character has been situated in our own milieu. The book fully deserves the exceptional popular success which it has enjoyed.' It has been adapted for radio, television and screen and has been enjoyed by more than one generation of Canadians in a variety of media. / The author was a member of the École Littéraire de Montréal and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1960.
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Born in Sainte-Adèle, Québec, Claude-Henri Grignon (1894-1976) began studies at the Collège de St. Laurent, but left while still young, and was mainly self-taught. From 1916-1939, he worked as a journalist for various Montreal papers, but he disliked city life and returned to Ste-Adèle, where he resided until his death in 1976. For seven years, beginning in 1937, he wrote his Pamphlets de Valdombre (using the pseudonym Valdombre), in which he used sarcasm and humour to castigate his generation for its political and literary mediocrity. From 1937-1939, he was also chief editor of the liberal political weekly, En Avant. Grignon was a member of the Ecole Littéraire de Montreal and the Royal Society of Canada. He won the Prix David in 1936 for Un homme et son péché (The Woman and the Miser), and received the decoration of the Order of Canada in 1972 for his contribution to Canadian literature. Grignon’s involvement with his Laurentian community was not restricted to his writing. He was, at various times, mayor of Ste-Adèle, Superintendent of Schools, and Prefect for the County of Terrebonne.

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