Join the revolution, comrade journeys and essays
by Charles Foran
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In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction. Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to Shanghai residents about their colossal city and commiserates with the people of Bali about the effects of terrorist bombs on their island. In Beijing he looks up old friends he had known back in 1989 during the days before and after the June 4th massacre. show more "Join the revolution, Comrade," a friend had loved to say, quoting a line from a Bertolucci film. Foran also 'encounters' Miguel de Cervantes, the Buddha of Compassion, and the pumped-up American Tom Wolfe. He maps the geography of Canadian literature and pinpoints the 'inner-Newfoundland' of Wayne Johnston. He defends the novel against those who would tame it and uses an ancient Chinese philosopher to explain how one imagination -- his own-- works. Whether exploring the waterways of Thailand or the streets of his childhood in suburban Toronto, meditating on raising children in post-9/11 Asia or the music of good prose, Charles Foran's writing is fresh, alert, and free of convention. show lessTags
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Charles Foran was born in Toronto, Canada in 1960. He received degrees in English literature and history from the University of Toronto and a Master's degree in Irish Literature at University College, Dublin. His first book, Sketches in Winter, was published in 1992. He has written over ten fiction and nonfiction books including Kitchen Music, The show more Story of My Life (So Far), House on Fire, Carolan's Farewell, and Maurice Richard. He won the QSPELL for The Last House of Ulster in 1995 and for Butterfly Lovers in 1997. He also won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Mordecai: The Life and Times. He is a contributing reviewer for The Globe and Mail and co-wrote the TV documentary Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews. He has taught in China, Hong Kong, and Canada. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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