Publication details
La Main de Michel Tremblay, réalité des illusions et des artifices
| Title in English | La Main of Michel Tremblay - the reality of illusions and the hypocrisy |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Philology Studies and Research. Romance Language Series |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | la Main; transvestites; reality; dream; Michel Tremblay |
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| Description | This article tries to present la Main - the street which corresponds with the St. Lawrence Boulevard (Montreal, Canada) - in the work of M. Tremblay, Quebecian author and play-writer. In Tremblay s literature universe la Main is elevated to be an exceptional place of the imaginary, since it represents such a parallel world, where it is possible to accomplish own dreams or/and reach a desired identity. Because of this reason the theatre plays in various cabarets and clubs on la Main street become to be ontological, since their goal is to conceal the reality. Despite of this (almost carnavalesque) subversion, the reality does not stop to be visible as the image of the majority culture. Finally la Main becomes to symbolize the junction of the religious, town and western imaginary and we try to point these imaginaries specially in the case of St. Carmen de la Main. |
