Poetry
Mon dinosaure
- Publisher
- La Peuplade
- Published
- April 17, 2013
- Pages
- 184
- Price
- $23.95
- ISBN
- 9782923530536
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Dans la lignée de Cette maison n’est pas la mienne (prix Émile-Nelligan 2009), Mon dinosaure s’ouvre sur plusieurs voix, plusieurs temps et plusieurs modes d’énonciation, où cette fois le père devient le «lieu» d’une véritable fouille, d’une collecte de récits enchâssés, d’une excavation où le passé d’un homme est investi de souvenirs réels autant que de vies imaginaires.
Passant du poème lyrique à la prose, de la correspondance au poème narratif, Mon dinosaure est un livre juxtaposant plusieurs programmes de lecture. Ici, des voix et des temps se confondent – celle d’un père tantôt disparu, tantôt reprenant parole, tantôt scripteur –, puis celle d’un fils qui met en scène, en récits et en poèmes plus d’une centaine de souvenirs, de racontars, rappelant que l’histoire d’un homme ne se raconte qu’en parcelles. Métaphore filée de toutes les disparitions, la figure du dinosaure renvoie dès lors au père lointain, que François Turcot ré-assemble méticuleusement.
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In the spirit of Cette maison n’est pas la mienne (Prix Émile-Nelligan 2009), Mon dinosaure opens with several voices, times, and enunciation modes, where the father figure becomes the “site” of a real search, of a collection of embedded narratives, of an excavation where a man’s past is invested with real memories as well as with imaginary lives.
Ranging from lyrical poetry to prose, from correspondence to narrative poem, Mon dinosaure is a book juxtaposing many possible readings. Here, voices and times merge—that of a father at times absent, at times speaking again, at times writing—then that of a son who summons, in narratives and poems, more than a hundred memories, bits of gossip, reminding us that a man’s story can only be told piece by piece. A prolonged metaphor for all disappearances, the figure of the dinosaur soon resembles the distant father, which François Turcot re-assembles meticulously.
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