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    [year] => 2020
    [artist] => Barney Allen
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    [title] => They Have Bodies, by Barney Allen
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    [synopsis] => Published in 1929, and almost instantly censored by the Toronto City Police, They Have Bodies has been completely overlooked by generations of scholars and writers interested in the Canadian avant-garde. It is not just the novel’s extreme formal innovation that is immediately startling about They Have Bodies. There is also its close attention to the depraved, licentious behaviour of Toronto’s elite, its revelation of moral hypocrisy, and its exposure of the means by which aristocratic and church power provides succor to egregious duplicity. Its social criticism and dark humor were too much for Canadian readers at the time. It is, however, exactly the kind of book contemporary Canadian readers, writers, and scholars hope lies buried in the archives waiting to be recovered. A gem of insight, innovation, and novelty: finally, here is a new edition of one of the rarest, wildest books of the twentieth century.

This book is published in English
Publié en 1929 et presque instantanément censuré parles services de police de la ville de Toronto, cet ouvrage, intitulé They Have Bodies, a été complétementnégligé par des générations d'écrivains et de chercheurs, par ailleurshabituellement sensibles aux créations de l'avant-garde canadienne.En fait, ce n'est pas seulement l'extrême innovationformelle de ce roman qui surprend et saisit de prime abord, mais aussil'attention particulière que l'auteur prête au comportement dépravé etlicencieux de l'élite torontoise. Dans cet ouvrage, Barney Allen révèlel'hypocrisie morale de cette élite aristocratique et religieuse ainsi que lesmoyens auxquels elle recourt pour masquer sa monstrueuse duplicité. Cetteviolente critique sociale, alliée à un humour noir des plus décapants, étaitsans doute trop corrosive pour les lecteurs canadiens de cette époque.Cependant, ce roman correspond exactement au typed'ouvrages, profondément enfouis dans les archives, que des lecteurs, desécrivains et des chercheurs canadiens contemporains espèrent ardemment exhumeret redécouvrir. En fait, ce texte avant-gardiste constitue un véritable joyaude perspicacité, d'innovation et de hardiesse. Cette nouvelle édition vouspermettra de découvrir un des romans les plus singuliers et les plus audacieuxdu XXe siècle.Ce livre est publié en anglais.
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    [series] => Canadian Literature Collection
    [publisher] => University of Ottawa Press
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