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Gabrielle Roy was born on March 22, in St. Boniface, Manitoba. With deep auburn hair, and eyes of sea-green, her strong features became more pronounced with age, which gave her a stately and elegant quality.
Gabrielle was the youngest of eleven children born to Léon and Mélina Roy. Only eight of her siblings lived past adolescence. Her mother, Mélina, was a woman whom Gabrielle loved and cherished. She was the basis for many of Roy's strong mother-figures in her novels. Although the Roy family had to do without many material things, Mélina made sure that the family was surrounded by stories of hope. She passed her aptitude for story-telling on to her daughter.
Gabrielle's father was already 59 when she was born. Many of the other Roy children could remember him during happier times. He had worked for years resettling immigrants in Western Canada, a job which he enjoyed greatly. His affinity for diverse cultures influenced Gabrielle's writing, as her works often celebrated people's differences. However, in Léon was dealt a blow from which he never fully recovered. Six months before he was to retire and receive his pension
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Born at St. Boniface on 22 March , daughter of Leon Roy () and Melina Landry () and younger sister of Marie Anna Adele Roy, she attended the Winnipeg Normal School and taught at Cardinal School before moving to Europe where she began to write.
Her first novel, Bonheur d’Occasion (translated as The Tin Flute), appeared in and won the Governor General’s Award. She was fluently bilingual and had a deceptively simple style. She wrote about ordinary people and strong women. Her work tended to celebrate the brief moments of joy in otherwise difficult lives.
She wrote a number of collections of short stories set in Manitoba: La Petite Poule d’eau (; translated as Where Nests the Water Hen), Rue Deschambault (; translated as Street of Riches), La Route d’Altamont (; translated as The Road Past Altamont), Un Jardin au bout du monde (; translated as Garden in the Wind), and Ces Enfants de ma vie (; translated as Children of My Heart). Several books were set in the Arctic and in Quebec. Roy also wrote two children’s books. She won three G
Gabrielle Roy, autobiographe. Subjectivité, passions et discours
« Passion de vie, passion de récit », voilà les enjeux essentiels sous-tendant la délicate restitution littéraire du soi à laquelle se livre Gabrielle Roy dans sa célèbre autobiographie posthume. Consacrée à l’analyse de la dimension passionnelle du récit de vie, dernière œuvre qu’a laissée la romancière québécoise, francophone nord-américaine, l’étude de Cécilia W. Francis révèle combien l’évocation poétique de cette pulsion du vivant s’investit d’une profonde ambivalence.
Inscrit dans le prolongement des travaux consacrés à la sémiotique des passions, inaugurée par Algirdas J. Greimas, cet ouvrage constitue un apport singulier au domaine de la discursivité royenne. Il fait converger l’autobiographe et le théoricien autour d’une question fondamentale: l’impérieuse irruption de la vie, du corps, des souvenirs, des émotions et des passions, surgie au terme d’une entreprise de création que l’on croyait pouvoir maîtriser. La valeur de l’investigation proposée réside dans les interrogations qu’elle soulève. Comment un effet de sens extrêmement diffus, la tonalité intimiste, se transmet-il par le langage ? Pourquoi cet
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Roy, Gabrielle. Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy. Translated by Patricia Claxton. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited, c p.
_________. Letters to Bernadette. Translated by Patricia Claxton. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited, c p.
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