The Driving Force (Paperback)

In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer's ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series of monologues to settle old scores and misunderstandings between them.In an astonishing and eerie reversal of roles, in Act 2 it is Alex who visits his son Claude in the same Alzheimer's ward and it is Alex's turn to rant and rail at what he perceives to be his mute son's contempt for his own working class life.With a cruel and disconsolate irony, we come to see that his father's lifelong attempt to mock and censure Claude's work as consisting of nothing but mediocre, misrepresentative lies, has been the very driving force behind Claude's compulsion to continue to reveal the  truth" of human relationships as he so desperately wants his father to understand it.

General

Imprint:	Talonbooks
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	Michel Tremblay
Translators:	Linda Gaboriau
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	64
ISBN-13:	978-0-88922-530-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-88922-530-3
Barcode:	9780889225305

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