The great novelist and poet Russell Banks, author of “Beautiful tomorrows” and D’“afflict”, died on Saturday January 7, 2023, at the age of 82. Didier Jacob had met him in September 2022 on the occasion of the publication of “Oh Canada”, a magnificent truth-novel in which he examines his own mortality. We are republishing this interview.
He doesn’t have much longer. Leonard Fife, the hero of “Oh Canada”, is a famous documentary filmmaker at the end of his life. In the hope of recording his last breath, and some startling revelations that could precede it, a TV crew comes to surprise him at home, flanked by his nurse and his infusion. And let’s go for the confession of Leonard who does as he pleases, and never answers his interviewer’s questions. The new novel by Russell Banks, which has been nourished by his own journey, is a fascinating and testamentary story, as much as a requiem for this America that Banks loved so much, and which he confides has never loved him so much. is scary. What if it was the United States that the great novelist was examining on his deathbed?
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The OBS. You recount, in “Oh, Canada”, a little-known episode of the Vietnam War: tens of thousands of young Americans fled conscription by crossing the Canadian border…
Russell Banks Yes, this is a fascinating aspect of opposing this Vietnam War
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