By Marcelle Brisson
Très connue dans les milieux féministes et de l'écriture, Marcelle Brisson demeure malheureusement méconnue du grand public. Son récit autobiographique permettra sans doute de mieux faire connaître cette determine généreuse et influente du Québec contemporain.
Marcelle Brisson est une determine à los angeles fois emblématique et singulière du monde intellectuel québécois. D'abord guidée par une quête de l'absolu qui pendant 10 ans lui fera emprunter los angeles voie religieuse (durant toute cette période elle mènera l. a. vie bénédictine de façon exemplaire), elle finira, à l. a. suite d'une grave dépression, par demander à Rome d'être relevée de ses voeux.
Sortie du monastère, elle emprunte radicalement los angeles voie laïque. Diplômée de philosophie, engagée socialement et politiquement, elle oeuvrera sans restrict dans un enseignement démocratique et destiné à los angeles majorité. Même si sa diplomation lui ouvrait les portes de l'université, elle persista dans un enseignement collégial qui marqua plusieurs générations de cégépiens québécois. Dès 1969, sa rencontre avec le grand philosophe français Mikel Dufresne est déterminante. C'est le début d'une histoire d'amour accompagnée de lettres et de rencontres. Elle le rejoint en France en 1991 et partagera sa vie à Paris jusqu'à sa mort en 1995.
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Certainly. Granola never harmed anybody, nor the birds and bees—not to mention milk. God is unknowable, but nature is explaining herself all the time. What has she told us so far? That blacks are obviously inferior to whites, for one thing, and intended for menial work on white man’s terms. This clear lesson from nature, we should remind ourselves from time to time, allowed Thomas Jefferson to own slaves. Imagine that. “What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
This was in Indianapolis, the world’s largest city not on a navigable waterway. Cousin Richard telephoned back. He was thrilled. He said that Bernard’s signals were loud and clear simply everywhere on the radio band, drowning out music or news or drama, or whatever the commercial stations were putting out at the time. • • • This is certainly that kind of masterpiece, and a new name should be created for such an all-frequencies assault on the sensibilities. I propose the name blivit. ” I would not mind if books simpler than this one, but combining fiction and fact, were also called blivits.
Uncle John’s conclusion to this prologue is worth setting down here: “The two world wars in which the United States was arrayed against Germany were painful experiences for German-Americans. They hated to be obliged to fight their racial cousins, but they did so, and it is significant that of the millions of German descendants in the United States during those dreadful wars there was not one case of treason. “The Germans, while loving the country of their origin, did not approve of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his warlords, nor Hitler and his wretched Nazis.