Gérard Bessette, Le Libraire [Not for Every Eye]

Download PDF Add to Bookshelf Report an Error

What might be overlooked as a minor work considering that its author, Gérard Bessette (1920-2005), is better known as a critic than a novelist, is quoted with much importance in Michel Biron, Elisabeth Nardout-Lafarge and François Dumont’s

Histoire de la littérature québécoise

. There

Le Libraire

[

Not for Every Eye

] (1960) is described as the prototypical novel of the Quiet Revolution:

The novel reaches a broad public and incorporates references to the actual world, that of the city, the youth, the social and national revolution, and sexual liberation. Even in a maze of wordplay, the novel seems to speak of and to its very own era.

The novel reaches a broad public and incorporates references to the actual world, that of the city, the youth, the social and national revolution, and…

4005 words

Citation: Pascal, Marie. "Le Libraire". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 February 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35820, accessed 14 December 2024.]

35820 Le Libraire 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

Save this article

Leave Feedback

The Literary Encyclopedia is a living community of scholars. We welcome comments which will help us improve.