Many More Mordecais

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Title
Many More Mordecais
Abstract
Where the first translations of Mordecai Richler's novels were by gaffe-prone Europeans unfamiliar with Montreal, the author stresses that French Quebec translations preserve the local character that is a hallmark of Richler’s fiction. The author identifies several familiar Richlers, including the hometown chronicler, the diasporic comic romancer in a North American field of self-invention, and the working-class satirist of defunct empire. But, he also observes, Richler satirizes an aggressively expansive province subject to many of the same pretensions, follies, and false pieties as the metropole.
Publication
Canadian Literature : A Quarterly of Criticism and Review
Volume
No. 248
Pages
126-134
Date
2022
Language
en
URL
Citation
Gopnik, Adam. “Many More Mordecais.” Canadian Literature : A Quarterly of Criticism and Review No. 248 (2022): 126–134. https://canlit.ca/article/many-more-mordecais/.
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