Melancholy and nostalgia in Régine Robin’s La Québécoite and Naïm Kattan’s La Célébration Cover Image

Mélancolie et nostalgie dans La Québécoite de Régine Robin et La Célébration de Naïm Kattan
Melancholy and nostalgia in Régine Robin’s La Québécoite and Naïm Kattan’s La Célébration

Author(s): Natalie Mojžíšová
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Montreal; Judaism; melancholy; nostalgia; loneliness; sadness; shtetl

Summary/Abstract: Thanks to numerous immigrants moving to Montreal, the city has become very favorable to a meeting of cultures and individuals among which many artists of Jewish origin. Those who seek to integrate into the new society go through an often painful journey complicated by the feeling of loneliness, the effort to belong to the community, the desire for love and fulfillment, as well as the dark past common to the entire Jewish world of Eastern Europe. All these features are present in two Montreal novels: Régine Robin’s La Québécoite and Naïm Kattan’s La Célébration. Two facets of sadness will be analysed: melancholy and nostalgia.

  • Issue Year: XXX/2020
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 137-147
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French
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