Exiguity

François Paré was born in Longueuil, Québec and is currently a professor of French at the University of Guelph. In 1993 he won the Governor General's Award and the Signet d'or for Les literatures de l'exiguïté. He is also author of Théories de la fragilité (1994). Lin Burman is a teacher of French and freelance translator. She holds an M.A. in translation studies from the School of Translation, Glendon College, York University.

``This readable translation by Lin Burman makes available to English-language readers a novel and contemporary reflective approach to the state of some literatures in the world today....Parã© succeeds in confronting the reader with a stimulating apologia for the voices from the edge....This book can be read and appreciated by advanced undergraduate and postgraduate research students from any literary discipline. It will be of particular interest to those studying the minority cultures of Canada and to those with an interest in literature beyond the beaten path of major languages....This is a radical book, both in the idea that mass cultural movements can produce the opposite effect and in the manner in which profound reflections are casually made. In the age of the sound-byte and the domination of the visual it is reassuring that Parã© not only sees a future for the writers of smaller languages but predicates the maintenance of the intellectual spirit on their continuing survival and development.'' -- Pãidraig O Gormaile, University of Galway, Ireland, Canadian Ethnic Studies