Listening: Laurence’s Women
During a conversation with Nick in A Jest of God, when Nick is talking about immigrants, Rachel thinks: “as though things had been easy for the people I came from, easy back into prehistory and forward for ever. What does he know about it?” (106) Suddenly I feel stultified by this conversation. It i...
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| Zusammenfassung: | During a conversation with Nick in A Jest of God, when Nick is talking about immigrants, Rachel thinks: “as though things had been easy for the people I came from, easy back into prehistory and forward for ever. What does he know about it?” (106)
Suddenly I feel stultified by this conversation. It is a Canadian conversation. Everything Margaret Laurence touches becomes/isso Canadian. So Canadian that, as Antonin Artaud says, “nerves tensed the whole length of my legs” (80). I wanted to run.
Before I ever knew Canada, I saw the Prairies through the eyes of Margaret Laurence. I |
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