




BusterBunny a écrit:Mordechai Richler et Falardeau, mais pas Robert Bourassa.
On a les priorités à la bonne place.




Snit a écrit:Le conseiller Marvin Rotrand dépose une demande à la Commission de toponymie pour attribuer une rue ou un site significatif pour perpétuer la mémoire de Mordecai-Richler.
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Graeme Hamilton, National Post · Friday, Nov. 5, 2010
Montreal — When Mordecai Richler died in 2001, francophone Quebec hardly mourned his passing. Bernard Landry, the Parti Québécois premier of the day, could not be bothered acknowledging the death of one of the province’s most accomplished writers, leaving the job to his culture minister. The separatist writer Pierre Bourgault wrote a tasteless column in the Journal de Montréal saying Mr. Richler would not be missed. For much of French Quebec, Mr. Richler’s legacy was not his rich fiction but his journalism tearing into Quebec nationalists and their language laws.
With the 10th anniversary of Mr. Richler’s death coming next July, there are signs that might change. Two Montreal city councillors are leading a drive to have a street or other landmark named after Mr. Richler, whose early years in the city’s Mile End neighbourhood inspired some of his best work.
Jean-François Lisée, who worked as an advisor to PQ premiers Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard, exchanged plenty of angry words with Mr. Richler over his depictions of the sovereigntist movement. But Mr. Lisée said yesterday that Mr. Richler warrants a tribute from his native city.
“He is in the top three writers that Quebec has produced in the last century. He’s up there with our very best,” Mr. Lisée said in an interview. “He did write about Quebec in an astoundingly rich and original way. He’s a gem, and I think it should be recognized.”
Francine Pelletier examines Mr. Richler’s uneasy relationship with Quebec in her new documentary, The Last Angry Jew, which airs on Bravo next month. “I think francophones are pretty divided,” she said. “I think there are some who greatly appreciated him as a writer, but I realized in making the film that most francophone Quebecers see him as the trouble-maker, the one who irritated us by beating up on nationalism, the Parti Québécois and language laws. There is still a lot of sensitivity about that.”
But she is optimistic that a street or landmark named for Mr. Richler will not trouble the city’s linguistic peace. And perhaps, she said, it will spur people unfamiliar with his novels to give them a read. “When people have read Mordecai Richler as a novelist, it changes their perception,” she said. “They are ready to acknowledge he was a great novelist and a great Quebecer, even if he held views that were not the same as ours.”
Of course for some perpetual protesters within the sovereignty movement, it will take more than the passing of a decade to open their minds. Language crusader Mario Beaulieu of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste told the Canadian Press yesterday that his group will oppose honouring “an anti-Quebec racist.” (Mr. Beaulieu also opposed a proposed reenactment of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 2009.)
Mr. Rotrand’s proposal is in the hands of the city committee responsible for place names. He has also begun an on-line petition to support the project, which had gathered nearly 300 names at the end of yesterday afternoon.
Many have proposed renaming a street in the Mile End area, with Mr. Richler’s widow Florence even suggesting to The Gazette that St. Urbain Street be renamed.
But the tribute could also come in the form of a renamed library or a plaque near his childhood home, Mr. Rotrand said. Alex Norris, the councillor representing Mile End for the opposition Projet Montréal party, said the administration should be wary of changing street names following the bungled attempt in 2006 to honour Robert Bourassa. A plan to rename Park Avenue after the late premier was abandoned after an outcry from area merchants and residents. “People are very attached to existing place names,” Mr. Norris said.
Mr. Lisée, who describes himself as one the “primary contradictors” of Mr. Richler’s political writing, said he feels a responsibility to show his fellow francophones the other side of the coin. He recognizes that naming a street or public square after Mr. Richler might be “a tough sell” given the writer’s lingering reputation, but he said the sales job is worth it. “Quebec cherishes its culture, and it should be reflected in its landscape.” And anyway, even if some Montrealers take offence, it would not be the first street named after a controversial figure. “It’s incredible that we have a Wolfe Street in Montreal, because this is a general who actually killed a number of francophones,” Mr. Lisée said.
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Snit a écrit: .. Alors la rue Mordecai-Richler? Oui, mais après Falardeau, Bourgault et le Frère-André.
MéGaBec a écrit:.. Y'a sûrement un fond de ruelle où on entrepose les poubelles qu'on pourrait nommer en son honneur.


Polémix a écrit:Snit a écrit: .. Alors la rue Mordecai-Richler? Oui, mais après Falardeau, Bourgault et le Frère-André.
Non, jamais ! Le gars qui a traité nos aïeules de truies ne mérite aucun hommage


JMS a écrit:Polémix a écrit:Snit a écrit: .. Alors la rue Mordecai-Richler? Oui, mais après Falardeau, Bourgault et le Frère-André.
Non, jamais ! Le gars qui a traité nos aïeules de truies ne mérite aucun hommage
Je n'aimes pas non plus Richler, mais en toute justice, ce qu'il a dit c'est que l'Église catholique traitait les femmes comme si elles étaient des truies.

Mouton Enragé a écrit:JMS a écrit:Polémix a écrit:Non, jamais ! Le gars qui a traité nos aïeules de truies ne mérite aucun hommage
Je n'aimes pas non plus Richler, mais en toute justice, ce qu'il a dit c'est que l'Église catholique traitait les femmes comme si elles étaient des truies.
Si tu veux vraiment lui faire justice, tu devrais ajouter que le type a utilisé, toute sa vie et sur toute la planète, sa notoriété pour associer les souverainistes et les défendeurs de la loi 101, pour des nazis.
La petite rue du centre de recyclage, sur le site de l'ancienne carrière Miron, serait parfaite. Ses vieux livres feraient un bon papier-cul.


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