Michel Tremblay: 22 books

Raucous, reckless, and rude, the women of Les Belles Soeurs shamelessly share their most secret hopes and fears, complain stridently about their friends and relatives, and fantasize wistfully about escaping the misogynist drudgery of their lives. With the premiere of this play in 1968, Joual, the distinctive...

A fusty academic has fallen in love with a young actor who works as a salesman while waiting for his big break; however, the academic must learn to make room in his life for the actor’s four-year-old son. This is Tremblay’s first novel to be inspired by experiences from his own life.

In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer’s ward, intimately tending to his silent, vacant father’s bodily needs while hopelessly trying to reach him with monologues and settle misunderstandings. In Act 2, in an eerie reversal of roles, Alex visits Claude in the same ward, similarly finding disconsolate irony where he had looked for forgiveness.

A bold, quirky play from the renowned Quebecois writer, translated by Martin Bowman & Bill Findlay into a robust earthy Scots. On six moonlit Montreal balconies on a sultry summer's evening, eleven people tell their stories of love. Isabelle and Yannick are alive and ecstatic with the thrill...

The year is 1967, and everyone in Montreal is waiting for the day when they can visit Expo’s exotic foreign pavilions. Meanwhile, Céline Poulin, self-conscious midget and former waitress, has started a new job: hostess in a bordello just opened by Montreal’s famous Madame, Fine Dumas. Its specialty? All the “girls” in “Le Boudoir” are transvestites. This is Céline’s record.

Vingt-six auteurs. Vingt-six lettres. Vingt-six adresses publiques. Un abécédaire. Une refondation de la parole et du sens des mots. La langue, les mots, leurs sens ont le pouvoir de lier une communauté autour d’images, de référents, de débats. Ils ont aussi le dos large. Souvent—particulièrement...

Ce livre, qui s’adresse aux personnes de 7 à 107 ans, est un recueil à la fois littéraire et thérapeutique, magique et symbolique, traitant de divers sujets se rapportant à l’amour de soi et des autres. Il présente une nouvelle façon d’amorcer des solutions, soit de le faire au niveau...