Monique LaRue, La Gloire de Cassiodore

Cristina Robu (Indiana University)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2002

Places

Canada (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Born in Montreal on April 3, 1948, Monique LaRue is a francophone writer, holding degrees in both philosophy and literature (see note 1). These two complementary areas pervade her fictional texts and make her writing styles vary considerably (Rochon). In fact, because of her ability to draw from the two distinct fields of inquiry, her writing has the merit of deploying a refined sense of wonder and an impressive intertextual grid. Combined with her writing career, her experience as a French high school teacher helped her to construct the complex plot of her fifth novel, La Gloire de Cassiodore (2002), which weaves a network of social and literary interaction in the pre‑university microcosm.

The narrative explores …

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Citation: Robu, Cristina. "La Gloire de Cassiodore". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 June 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35793, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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