Word: lemelin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TOWN BELOW (302 pp.)-Roger Lemelin, translated by Samuel Putnam-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...Roger Lemelin, himself the son of a mulot, has drawn, in The Town Below, a thickly atmospheric portrait of St. Sauveur. He wrote it on the family kitchen table, while his numerous brothers & sisters did their homework on the other end. Lemelin loves the vivid, sharp-tongued mulots but at times he is overcome with despair over their backwardness and superstitions...
...central characters of this meandering story about an adolescent love affair, mercurial Denis and marshmallow-sweet Lise, are difficult to take seriously as human beings. But Lemelin writes with vigor and energy, he is rooted in the life of the people about whom he writes and knows exactly what he is talking about; and, most important of all, he is steadfastly honest. Roger Lemelin may yet write novels that will make not only French Canada but the entire western world acknowledge him as an important writer...
After that, it was anybody's fight. Roger Lemelin, author of Au Pied de la Pente Douce, a story about Quebec City, took the middle way. Obviously, he argued, French Canadians have the intellectual characteristics of their race, but it is natural that they should write about their North American surroundings...