Thériault – un Self-Made-Man et le Grand Nord
Thériault – un Self-Made-Man et le Grand Nord

Summary/Abstract: Theriault’s work about 40 novels and short stories was rewarded with the Molson Prize (1971) and Athanase-David Prize (1979). Yves Theriault is a mythical character swigging between the reality and the legend of his own mystified autobiography. As he became a self-made man he adopted the school of life. He passionately embraced jobs, working hard till exhaustion. He was a salesman, a journalist, a radio reporter, an advertiser, a script writer, for the National Office a Film Radio Canada. His stubborn will to earn his existence by working, explains the fact he embraced such genres as literatures for children, short stories, detective novels, radio plays. His characters, instinctual human beings a torn by contradictory patience in there struggle with the unforgiving Nature of the Canadian North. In his about 30 novels he stages solitary characters and marginal Indians Métis, Jews who are in conflict with the social order. As a talented story-teller, Thériault tries to explore also the human subconscious.

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