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 succour to egregious duplicity. Its social criticism and
dark humour 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 - Publie en
1929 et presque instantanement censure par les services de police
de la ville de Toronto, cet ouvrage, intitule They Have Bodies, a
ete completement neglige par des generations d'ecrivains et de
chercheurs, par ailleurs habituellement sensibles aux creations de
l'avant-garde canadienne. En fait, ce n'est pas seulement l'extreme
innovation formelle de ce roman qui surprend et saisit de prime
abord, mais aussi l'attention particuliere que l'auteur prete au
comportement deprave et licencieux de l'elite torontoise. Dans cet
ouvrage, Barney Allen revele l'hypocrisie morale de cette elite
aristocratique et religieuse ainsi que les moyens auxquels elle
recourt pour masquer sa monstrueuse duplicite. Cette violente
critique sociale, alliee a un humour noir des plus decapants, etait
sans doute trop corrosive pour les lecteurs canadiens de cette
epoque. Cependant, ce roman correspond exactement au type
d'ouvrages, profondement enfouis dans les archives, que des
lecteurs, des ecrivains et des chercheurs canadiens contemporains
esperent ardemment exhumer et redecouvrir. En fait, ce texte
avant-gardiste constitue un veritable joyau de perspicacite,
d'innovation et de hardiesse. Cette nouvelle edition vous permettra
de decouvrir un des romans les plus singuliers et les plus
audacieux du XXe siecle. Ce livre est publie en anglais.
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