The Love of Man

Éléonore in three phases: twelve weeks in Corsica, twelve days in Andalusia, twelve hours in Montreal. Don Juan in three incarnations: in Corsica, he’s Clément, a ladies’ man who’s fading fast; in Andalusia, he’s Don Miguel Mañara, who dreamed of seducing a thousand and two women; in Montreal, he’s Byron and his last unfinished poem. Love, its truth and its lies. Life and death hovering over us.

Hélène Rioux has published poetry, short stories, translations, and novels popular both in France and Quebec. She received the Prix France-Québec and the Prix Ringuet de l’Académie des Lettres du Québec for Mercredi soir au Bout du monde (translated by Jonathan Kaplansky as Wednesday Night at the End of the World). She has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award six times.

Jonathan Kaplansky is a literary translator of French in Montreal and won a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s Things Seen and was shortlisted for the David Booth Award for Jonathan Bécotte’s Like a Hurricane. He has also translated works Hélène Dorion, Lise Gauvin, Louis- Philippe Hébert, Hélène Rioux and Lise Tremblay.