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In a letter that she writes to a certain Théodore, the narrator inImages evokes a tumultuous period in her life: her adolescence. During this period, filled with anxiety and panic, she found help and comfort from Dorothée, a young woman barely older than her, who helped her escape her nightmare existence. What was the young Isaac so afraid of at the time? And why is she now remembering the terrifying events of her youth? Images is about the fear of dying, the pull death has on us, and how we seek the help and comfort of others in an effort to escape this nightmare.
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In a letter that she writes to a certain Théodore, the narrator inImages evokes a tumultuous period in her life: her adolescence. During this period, filled with anxiety and panic, she found help and comfort from Dorothée, a young woman barely older than her, who helped her escape her nightmare existence. What was the young Isaac so afraid of at the time? And why is she now remembering the terrifying events of her youth? Images is about the fear of dying, the pull death has on us, and how we seek the help and comfort of others in an effort to escape this nightmare.
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In a letter that she writes to a certain Théodore, the narrator inImages evokes a tumultuous period in her life: her adolescence. During this period, filled with anxiety and panic, she found help and comfort from Dorothée, a young woman barely older than her, who helped her escape her nightmare existence. What was the young Isaac so afraid of at the time? And why is she now remembering the terrifying events of her youth? Images is about the fear of dying, the pull death has on us, and how we seek the help and comfort of others in an effort to escape this nightmare.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550719345
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
Publication date: 10/01/2015
Series: Essential Translations Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 136
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Montrealer Louise Bouchard has published two novels, and three poetry collections, includingL’inséparable (Grand Prix de poésie du Journal de Montréal, 1989) and Entre les mondes (Prix de poésie de la revue Estuaire, 2007). Les Images, the original French version for this translation, was a finalist for the 1985 Governor General’s Award. In 2013 she was the Writer in Residence at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
Christine Tipper holds a Ph.D. and a Masters in French literary translation from the University of Exeter, England, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and of the Conseil International d'Études Francophones. She works as a freelance interpreter, translator and a freelance teacher of translating and interpreting on Masters programmes at the University of Bath. She has translated several authors for Guernica including Changing Shores by Nadine Ltaif, Evelyne Wilwerth's Smile, you're getting old, Danielle Fournier's We Come From The Same Light and Francis Catalano's Where Spaces Glow.
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