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François Ricard

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Born January 1, 1947 (79 years old)
Shawinigan, Canada
Also known as: François Ricard
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François Ricard (born June 4, 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec. He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous works of non-fiction. Source: [François Ricard]( on Wikipedia

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Agnes's Final Afternoon

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"Francois Ricard's book joins the great French tradition of the literary essay as a meditation on the writing of Milan Kundera." "Agnes's Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Kundera's novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnes steps out of her car - out of the world of planned routes, responsibilities, and social self - and gives herself up to the discovery of a new landscape, an experience that will transform her. Francois Ricard's essay enters into the writings of Milan Kundera in much the same way. The landscape he explores includes a chain of ten novels, composed between 1959 and 1999, and two books containing one of the most lucid reflections on the novel."--Jacket.

La génération lyrique

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Un essai qui tient plus de la sociologie, de la psychologie, de la démographie et de l'histoire que de la littérature, dans lequel l'auteur trace le portrait de la génération des hommes et des femmes du Québec qui ont (en 1992) entre quarante et cinquante ans. Au terme d'un bilan idéologique, culturel et contre-culturel, F. Ricard conclut que les réalisations de cette génération ne sont pas à la hauteur des espoirs suscités. Comme l'a bien vu R. Saletti, cet essai en forme de "confession collective" fait le procès de la modernité et de ceux qui l'ont fait momentanément triompher.