Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century
by John Ralston Saul
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In Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye from a reinterpretation of the Western world to an examination of Canada itself. Caught up in crises--political, economic, and social--Canada continues to flounder, unable to solve or even really identify its problems. Instead, we assert absolute differences between ourselves: we are English or we are French; Natives or Europeans; early immigrants or newly arrived; from the east or from the west. Or we bow to ideologies and deny all show more differences in the name of nationalism, unity, or equality. In a startling exercise in reorientation, John Ralston Saul makes sense of Canadian myths--real, false, denied--and reconciles them with the reality of today's politics, culture, and economics. show lessTags
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John Ralston Saul is an award-winning essayist and novelist and the president of PEN International. He holds a PhD from King's College London. His books are available in thirty-one countries and have been translated into twenty-three languages. He is the recipient of Chile's Pablo Neruda Medal, Canada's Governor General's Award and Italy's Premio show more Letterario Internazionale, among others. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France. He lives in Toronto. show less
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- Canonical title
- Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century
- Original publication date
- 1997
- Important places
- Canada
- Epigraph
- Ce fut un Vaisseau d'or, dont les flancs diaphanes revelaient des tresors que les marins profanes, Degout, haine et Nevrose, entre eux ont disputes. -- Emile Nelligan, Le Vaisseau D'or
- Dedication
- To the memory of my brother Anthony
- First words
- Canada, like other nation-states, suffers from a contradiction between its public mythologies and its reality.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It is an intelligence, the Inuit say, which grows because it is nurtured.
- Original language
- English
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- English, French
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- Paper, Ebook
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