Le bruit des choses vivantes

By Elise Turcotte

1991

First Published

3.75

Average Rating

200

Number of Pages

6H06M

Audio Length

Albanie is 30 years old, her daughter Maria is four, and the two are on their own. But luckily, Albanie's work at the local library allows them the rare freedom to pursue a life of the imagination. Out of the passing of days, the flow of words, the aspects of life they explore together, a love story unlike any other is woven between Albanie and Maria, one that enables them to feel and hear the "sound of living things" which connects them to the world and its images, even if "images don't say everything about the things that happen." Maria declares that solace must be found for everything, for living beings and for objects, for varieties of love, even for speech itself, which tries to express what is inexpressible about life, "a stolen thing." In the poignant details of daily life, mother and daughter rediscover their capacity for joy.

Avg Rating

3.75

Number of Ratings

147

5 STARS

24%

4 STARS

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3 STARS

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Author

Elise Turcotte

Author · 6 books

Élise Turcotte is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel La Maison étrangère and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for La voix de Carla in 1987, and for La terre pst idi in 1989. Her novel The Alien House was shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. Élise Turcotte lives in Montreal, where she has taught at the CEGEP de Vieux-Montréal since 1986. ********** Élise Turcotte a obtenu un baccalauréat en arts et une maîtrise en études littéraires à l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle a ensuite obtenu son doctorat à l'Université de Sherbrooke. Après la publication de recueils de poésie, elle aborde le roman, la nouvelle et fait paraître plusieurs livres pour enfants, tout en conservant un intérêt constant pour l'écriture poétique. Elle enseigne la littérature au Cégep du Vieux-Montréal. Le fonds d'archives d'Élise Turcotte est conservé au centre d'archives de Montréal de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.