Hébert François
Professor
Department of French Literatures
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Hébert François François Hébert is a doctor from the University of Aix-Marseille, where he defended a thesis on the novels of André Malraux. He was a journalist with Radio-Canada, literary director of Éditions Quinze, columnist at Le Devoir , director of Liberté . He has published novels ( Holyoke , The Rendezvous ), essays ( Triptych of Death , Montreal ), poems ( Homo plasticus , The last song of the penultimate dodo , Black Lake , The highest apples ). He translated, with Marie-Andrée Lamontagne, an essay by the American novelist John Gardner (Morale and Fiction ), prepared an edition for the colleges of Regards and Games in the Space of Saint-Denys Garneau and published his correspondence with Jacques Ferron ( You probably joke ... ). His research focuses on the theme of the sacred (faith, myth, religion, "death of God", beliefs, superstitions ...), applies to detect manifestations in literary texts (from theories and methods of Caillois, Malraux, Guénon, Eliade, Frye, Girard, Lévinas, Derrida ...) and unfolds mainly in Quebec poetry (Saint-Denys Garneau, Anne Hébert, Rina Lasnier, Gaston Miron, Gilles Cyr, Denis Vanier ... )
Research Interest
literature studies and writing, Historical and uchronic narrations.
