Awards
- Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Award for Translation 2019 (Canada)
Overview
Formally inventive, Simon Brousseau's Synapses orchestrates a series of beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each involving a different character, eloquently presented using a sole, twisting and turning, stylistically accomplished sentence written in the second-person singular. Brousseau depicts a vast society of differing psyches and souls, all unique and idiosyncratic, yet interconnected, quasi neurologically, in a dialogic network of humanity. With Synapses, his first novel, Brousseau realizes the surprising feat of a pointillist literary masterpiece.
Full Product Details
Author: Simon Brousseau ,
Pablo Strauss
Publisher: Talon Books,Canada
Imprint: Talon Books,Canada
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 0.70cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.152kg
ISBN: 9781772012231
ISBN 10: 1772012238
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 15 August 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""By situating the reader in a multitude of perspectives, [Brousseau] pushes the limits of human empathy in ways that a traditional novel cannot"" —Montréal Review of Books ""The mind searches for and finds pleasing dialogic connections between the snapshots."" —Ian MacLean, The Malahat Review"
By situating the reader in a multitude of perspectives, [Brousseau] pushes the limits of human empathy in ways that a traditional novel cannot -Montreal Review of Books The mind searches for and finds pleasing dialogic connections between the snapshots. -Ian MacLean, The Malahat Review
By situating the reader in a multitude of perspectives, [Brousseau] pushes the limits of human empathy in ways that a traditional novel cannot --Montreal Review of Books The mind searches for and finds pleasing dialogic connections between the snapshots. --Ian MacLean, The Malahat Review
Author Information
Simon Brousseau was born in Quebec City in 1985. He lives in Montreal and teaches literature at Jean-de-Brebeuf College. In 2014 at Universite du Quebec Montreal he defended his dissertation on the work of David Foster Wallace and the question of literary influence (to be published as an essay by ditions Nota Bene in 2019) . Synapses, his first novel (Cheval d'aot, 2016) was a finalist in the 2017 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, and will be published in English with Talonbooks in 2019, translated by Pablo Strauss. Les fins heureuses (Cheval d'aot, 2018) is a collection of short stories.
