Mile End in the written word
Le Devoir surveys the books written about Mile End in the past and present, the first of a series on neighbourhood literatures around town.
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Ian 23:00 on 2024-07-06 Permalink
Not mentioning any specific books by Richler or even mentioning Cohen in passing is a remarkable omission. I mean yeah it’s le Devoir but c’mon.
PatrickC 02:17 on 2024-07-07 Permalink
There are many other novels more recent than those of Richler or Cohen (whose novels are not actually situated in Mile End anyway). How about Louis Rastelli’s “A Fine Ending” or Guillaume Morissette’s “New Tab”? Or Marianne Ackerman’s “Jump”? Just for starters…
Ian 06:48 on 2024-07-07 Permalink
St Urbain’s Horsemen and Duddy Kravitz aren’t Mole End, just to name 2? Try harder. The Favourite Game was one of the reasons I came here!
CE 08:29 on 2024-07-07 Permalink
I think he’s referring to Cohen, not Richler. Nobody who has read Richler could possibly think he’s not writing about Mile End. I’ve only read Beautiful Losers by Cohen and I seem to remember most of it taking place in and around downtown. I don’t think he wrote much about Mile End.
Kate 08:53 on 2024-07-07 Permalink
Ian, forgive me, but I love “Mole End” – it sounds like something from The Wind in the Willows.
Uatu 09:24 on 2024-07-07 Permalink
It’s right nextdoor to Toad Hall
GC 10:25 on 2024-07-07 Permalink
Yeah, “Mole End” is my favourite typo of the week.
Ian 17:37 on 2024-07-07 Permalink
Haha, I live to serve 🙂
In the Favourite Game one of the characters even had a summer job sweeping up at the garment factories on de Gaspé … and much of the action takes place in the English part of the Plateau north of the park, so Mile End. As I recasll Beautiful Losers was pretty much all downtown, though.
Anyway I just found it odd that all the books were written by French authors, it’s not like work doesn’t exist in translation …
PatrickC 19:46 on 2024-07-07 Permalink
IIRC, the hero of The Favorite Game has an apartment on Stanley, i.e. downtown.