Abla Farhoud, Le bonheur a la queue glissante [Happiness Has a Slippery Tail]

Rasha Chatta (Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1998

Places

Canada (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Le bonheur a la queue glissante

, published in 1998, marks Abla Farhoud’s first foray into the genre of the novel, having previously favoured theatre with six published plays written and performed in the 1980s and 1990s. Having been awarded the France-Québec-Philippe Roussillon prize the year following its publication,

Le bonheur a la queue glissante

[Happiness Has a Slippery Tail] (selected excerpts have been translated into English by Jill MacDougall, under the title “Dounia-a-World” in Dahab, 2002: 46-67) builds upon and further develops themes already approached by Farhoud in some of her earlier plays, in particular

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Citation: Chatta, Rasha. "Le bonheur a la queue glissante". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 October 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35611, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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