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Résumé
« La vocation manquée », la nouvelle de clôture du recueil La Fin du voyage (1942), est l’occasion pour le romancier Albert Laberge (1871-1960) de dénoncer le pouvoir religieux dans l’éducation. Sa critique est faite tant par le récit de la vie du malheureux héros chassé de son collège pour avoir eu en sa possession des livres interdits, que par les allusions faites à des oeuvres d’autres écrivains, tels Ovide, Voltaire et Dumas. Laberge apparaît ainsi comme un précurseur de la contestation qui surviendra pendant la Révolution tranquille.
Abstract
"La vocation manquée" (The failed vocation), the final short story in the collection La Fin du voyage (The End of the Journey) (1942), is an opportunity for the novelist Albert Laberge (1871-1960) to denounce the power religion has over education. His critique is realized as much through the narrative of the life of the unhappy hero pursued by his college for having had banned books in his possession, as through allusions made to works by other authors such as Ovid, Voltaire, and Dumas. Laberge thus appears as a precursor to the contention which arose during the Quiet Revolution.
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