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In the Village of Viger (New Canadian Library) ReviewThis volume was first published in 1896. It is made up of ten short stories, written by an English Canadian, but all set in a French Canadian village. The pieces are intertwined not only by the setting, but also by some persons who appear in more than onestory.
The author is well aware of the wave of modernization, industrialisation and urbanisation sweeping Eastern Canada in the second half of the 19th century, and he realises that it will bring revolutionary change to heretofore quaint, traditional villages. So the stories are a look back to the rural Quebec of old from the turn of the century, with the first signs of urban intrusion carefully depicted, and though they are not condemned or regretted, a touch of nostalgia is hard to miss.
Present-day readers who care for this theme (as opposed to the purely literary attractions like impressive characters and the artful interweaving of stories)thus enjoy a double perspective, from the penultimate turn of the century as well as the last one. This work of art is thus also of considerable importance to the social historian.
Wolfgang Helbich, SchnepfenthalIn the Village of Viger (New Canadian Library) OverviewThe ten stories in In the Village of Viger portray the life of a rural village as it faces the darkness of its own future. An established milliner, Madame Laroque, is upset by the advent of a younger, more popular rival. An innkeeper's obsession with the Franco-Prussian War drives his descent into madness. A gardener longs to return to the village in France where his mother was born. At once comical, farcical, and tragic, this superb collection, first published in 1896, anticipates later collections of linked short stories including Alice Munro's Who Do You Think You Are? and Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House.

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