Notifications can be turned off anytime from settings.
Item(s) Added To cart
Qty.
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and try again.
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and try again.
Exchange offer not applicable. New product price is lower than exchange product price
Please check the updated No Cost EMI details on the payment page
Exchange offer is not applicable with this product
Exchange Offer cannot be clubbed with Bajaj Finserv for this product
Product price & seller has been updated as per Bajaj Finserv EMI option
Please apply exchange offer again
Your item has been added to Shortlist.
View AllYour Item has been added to Shopping List
View AllSorry! Miss Take is sold out.
You will be notified when this product will be in stock
|
Brief Description
Rejean Ducharme is Quebec's most famous writer aside from Michel Tremblay. Here are echoes of Arthur Rimbaud and Williams Burroughs.
Learn More about the Book
Sixteen-year-old Miles has run away from home, inviting his childhood companion, the fourteen-year-old Inuit orphan Chateaugue, to join him in a rented flat opposite Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours in Montreal. There they construct a chaste life for themselves, living as brother and sister. They spend their days riding bicycles wildly through the streets of the city, dodging the automobiles that symbolize for them the adult world they despise, a world that has dominated the landscape with its roadmaps of social discourse. They spend hours at the library, laughing with disdain at how the classics have become venerated, how their authors' words and turns of phrase have become confused with the things and actions they signify. Enthralled by the works of the "mad" poet Nelligan, Miles begins a journal, determined to free language from the constraints of convention, but finds he cannot write anything without immediately conjuring up its opposite.
To escape the boredom that history seems to have decreed shall be re-enacted endlessly by all grown-ups, Miles and Chateaugue enter into a suicide pact to preserve their childhood freedom and purity from the debasement of the adult roles pre-ordained for them.
Destitute after spending what little money they have, Miles goes to a bar in search of a drink, where he is seduced by an older woman, and suddenly finds himself both attracted and repelled by the pleasures and debasements of the flesh. Having stepped out of their world of childhood innocence, can he return to Chateaugue and consummate their vows, or is this brush with experience irrevocable?
Written in a style that echoes the work of Arthur Rimbaud and William S. Burroughs, Ducharme's vision is darkly prophetic of a world that has lost its innocence, and on which "our lady of good help" now only gazes with an inscrutable Mona Lisa smile.
The images represent actual product though color of the image and product may slightly differ.
Register now to get updates on promotions and
coupons. Or Download App