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Some Night My Prince Will Come

by Michel Tremblay

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An evening at the opera spills out onto the street and into an odyssey through Montreal by night. The narrator, both innocent and cynical, rushes headlong down what appears to be the road to ruin--or perhaps merely to the loss of his virginity. We follow him from a café called El Cortijo (spanish for a country house with a farm building attached) to a nightclub called the Four Corners of the World. This is an urban metaphor for the classic story of the shrewd country boy bedazzled and led astray by the bright lights of the big city. We discover along with him a burlesque world of transgression and madness, where pleasures are far from simple and love is somewhat less than pure. On the street, as at the opera, passions are on the loose and truth and falsehood leave their marks in the service of the urgencies of desire. Will our hero find love and pleasure after all? This evocative account of his adventure is stamped with the ironic and the affectionate wit and humour that characterize all of Michel Tremblay's novels and memoirs. Drawing its fiction from many of the autobiographical sketches to be found in Bambi and Me, Twelve Opening Acts and Birth of a Bookworm, and from a collision of the Francophone east and the Anglophone west of Montreal, this novel marks a hiatus between Tremblay's six-volume Chroniques and his more contemporary novel, The Heart Laid Bare.… (more)
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Une soirée d'opéra qui se transforme en odyssée nocturne au coeur de Montréal, et voilà le narrateur de cette histoire, cynique Candide, courant à la perte... de sa virginité. Du café El Cortijo au cabaret des Quatre Coins du Monde, Michel Tremblay nous invite à refaire le parcours initiatique d'un jeune " beatnik ", et à découvrir avec lui un monde burlesque de folie et de transgression, où les passions se déchaînent, où partout éclatent le mensonge et la vérité dans l'urgence du désir. L'amour et le plaisir seront-ils au bout du voyage, dans la Nuit des princes cbarmants ? C'est ce que nous dévoile, avec humour et dérision, l'auteur d'Un ange cornu avec des ailes de tôle et des Chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal.
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Quarante-troisième titre de l'auteur. "Opéra, sexe et mensonges" (selon Robert Lévesque). Un suspense autour d'un jeune homosexuel "sentimental", fraîchement majeur, dans le Québec des années 1950 finissantes: à qui donnera-t-il sa virginité? Un itinéraire d'un soir qui conduit le lecteur d'une représentation de l'opéra ##Roméo et Juliette## de Gounod au Her Majesty's, à une chambre d'un "tourist room" du carré Saint-Louis, en passant par un bar clandestin de l'ouest de Montréal et un cabaret (ou boîte à chanson) de la rue Clark. Un mélange bien dosé de candeur, d'impudeur et d'humour. On peut admirer l'écriture familière, souple, simple et efficace de l'auteur qui affirme avoir écrit un "roman burlesque" et sa "première scène de cul". L'oeuvre clot le cycle dans lequel on retrouve ##Le coeur découvert## et ##Le coeur éclaté##."de Amazon.fr
  hycjan06 | Jan 25, 2006 |
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An evening at the opera spills out onto the street and into an odyssey through Montreal by night. The narrator, both innocent and cynical, rushes headlong down what appears to be the road to ruin--or perhaps merely to the loss of his virginity. We follow him from a café called El Cortijo (spanish for a country house with a farm building attached) to a nightclub called the Four Corners of the World. This is an urban metaphor for the classic story of the shrewd country boy bedazzled and led astray by the bright lights of the big city. We discover along with him a burlesque world of transgression and madness, where pleasures are far from simple and love is somewhat less than pure. On the street, as at the opera, passions are on the loose and truth and falsehood leave their marks in the service of the urgencies of desire. Will our hero find love and pleasure after all? This evocative account of his adventure is stamped with the ironic and the affectionate wit and humour that characterize all of Michel Tremblay's novels and memoirs. Drawing its fiction from many of the autobiographical sketches to be found in Bambi and Me, Twelve Opening Acts and Birth of a Bookworm, and from a collision of the Francophone east and the Anglophone west of Montreal, this novel marks a hiatus between Tremblay's six-volume Chroniques and his more contemporary novel, The Heart Laid Bare.

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