Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award
for literature in 1936 for his novel "Think of the Earth," and his
explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in
the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist,
successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and
theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his
short fiction and prose. "The Wrong World" presents a rich sampling
of his prose work, much of it previously unpublished, which adds
new insight into his aesthetic ambitions.
Working during an incredible period of transition in Canadian
society, Brooker's stories document Canada's evolution from a
provincial colony into a modern, urban country. His essays
participated in that evolution by advocating a passionate awakening
of the arts, the end of prudish sentiment and censorship, and a
radical rethinking of the nature of war. They capture the
limitations and hypocrisies of the Canadian social contract and
argue for a more just and spiritual society. His stories humanize
his social vision by dramatizing the psychological and emotional
cost of Canada's transition into a modern civilization. In turn
devastating, penetrating and poignant, Brooker's prose works offer
a sharply focussed window into the turbulent interwar years in
Canada.
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