Antonin Marquis has written for a long time, and, as he admits in his first attempt, he maintains a double relationship with writing, a dilemma experiencing daily.
Writes Wolf Hunt He was published by note Bene: “On the one hand, I give him enough meaning to build my life after this activity; On the other hand, I can’t find the only good reason, rationally, to justify it. Here we touch the basic questions for anyone who is approaching the process of artistic creation: What does it motivate someone to spend so much time in such a bizarre activity? »»
We repeat: Antonin Marquis devotes himself to a lot of time of this bizarre practice. He won a master’s degree and a doctorate in a literary creature. He teaches literature at Cégep and the University. Wolf Hunt is his third book and his first essay after two novels (Cicadas In 2017 and Diversity in 2022).
“The first novel was the fruit of my master’s degree,” explains Mr. Marquis in the price where he lives. The second novel was the fruit of my doctorate. The test is taken from the theoretical part of this work. The publisher noted that he wanted this supplement, but asked me in a way to remove the university from the project to make it a little more digestible to the general public. »»
This is called his study and the mission fulfilled. In fact, the words and confidentiality of the essay about the relationship to writing and art, but also to the values that control our lives, about our relationship to human existence led by beautiful and good, in this ideal world where ethics and aesthetics are one.
A good life
The text connects the slices of life, sometimes banal and often deep reflections. The procedure is performed through values, especially Tolstoy’s works. The book opens on the purchase of a monumental biography of 900 pages dedicated to Russian author French Henri Troyat. Immerse in the story of this life promotes annotation War and peace, Authority for the world giant of literature, his personal newspapers and other books of exegets and CVs. Two books of Léona Tolstoy (War and peace AND Anna Karanine) will appear in the list of 20 best books of all time published recently Economist.
“I found myself a lot in questions in Tolstoy, maybe less in the answers he tried to bring,” says Mr. Marquis. He adds Nathalie Watteyne, American philosophers Martha Nussbaum as a source of inspiration to the proposal of the work director. As a specialist in ancient times, she has developed work on issues associated with love, justice and democracy. It advocates the bite of the idea morally to engage in literature.
“He thinks a lot about this issue of good life.” How do you determine what is good in life? How do you find that someone lived well? Nussbaum thinks about it with regard to what is beyond us. A good life does not only depend on our will. »»
The philosopher even thinks about it by linking happiness with happiness, unexpected and uncontrollable. On the contrary, for Plato, soul peace, ataraxia, it consists of autonomy in relation to what one cannot control, separating from the things of the world.
“We are people: Eat, playing, establishing relationships with others gives us pleasure,” emphasizes Antonin Marquis Wolf Hunt. We can repeat that individual love is less than general love, it is obvious that we are experiencing a severe grief when the beloved loses his life. You may want to hide it, blame yourself for being weak, but you can’t separate from the world, for a simple reason that we live there. The existence of the Plato sees is impossible, because the reason is not omnipotent: whether they like it or not, people are sensitive and emotional. »»
Then follow specific examples based on the life of the heroes War and peace. André’s unsuccessful retirement in Bogoutchar. Pierre’s words and Natach’s happiness that lead him out. In fact, this literature provides examples of how to get morally giving.
“Tolstoy thinks a lot about his life dedicated,” adds Exegete in an interview. Why do you devote your life to literature, write invented stories? There is something very irrational, what anyone who likes to read or writes understands intuitively. In the newspaper Tolstoy I found a lot of my Ups and falls writer. Many writers know this pressure, this alternation of good and bad days of creation. There is something reassuring to see one of the greatest writers in the history of doubt about itself, especially in his early days. »»
On the other hand, Antonin Marquis was very little interested in the mystic of Tolstoy, especially in his age. “If I had to give words in a way to imagine transcendence, I would say I’m more of an atheist,” says Quebecer in the 1930s. The religious side of Tolstoy is therefore interested in little. »»
Grade
The test is organized around short chapters written according to the whims of everyday life. Confrontation allows you to show difficulties in respecting your principles, in this case it would be in writing, when there are as many ways to escape it.
“Try to divide everything, bring everything to a well -defined plan rationally, I don’t think it’s a good way to live well. It seems much easier to accept the disheveled side of life. There is a kind of counterpoint with great ideas that nourish the life that drives us. We always prepare food, empty the dishwasher and play video games. »»
The book can also offer escape for others. Here is The song of ice and fire (Asoiaf, suitable in the series under the name Grade) George RR Martina, who often serves as a temptation. Antonin Marquis fully assumes. The test goes so far that it compares two works in quality as in quantity.
“The complexity of Martin’s novels is impressive,” he writes by charging accounts: five volumes totaling 1,746,560 words and a show of 2007 characters. In comparison War and peace Accounts of nearly 600,000 words (the exact number varies according to editions and translations) and phases of 559 characters. Asoiaf, which is still not completed, is longer and has almost four times more characters than Tolstoy’s novel. »»
The professor admits that in his lessons he uses both the second writer. “When I discovered the George Martin series, I was very happy.” I read it at the same time as Tolstoy. I saw the similarities there and I had intellectual pleasure to compare both. Asoiaf has a merit in helping escape and in this sense also helps live better. Now it’s one of my favorite novels. »»
Hunt wolves that gives the title of essay comes from a strange scene from War and peace, Those who seem to be applied are not related to the main story from which the rhythm slows. It serves as an allegory for writing technology using Digresi to truth, as often as Mr. Marquis test, for example, when he says a winter camp.
“For me, it’s one of the most beautiful scenes in the novel, precisely because it says it one of the beautiful moments experienced by the character Nicolas, an unpredictable moment.” Happiness often brings us this way, perhaps not by chance, let’s say by the competition of circumstances. I won the title of my book, because life is often surprising and happiness sometimes arises unexpectedly where it was not expected. »»
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