LA HAIN E DE L’AUTRE DAN S: L’ÉTÉ 1939 AVANT L’ORAGE DE JEAN -PIERRE CHARLAND

Abstract

During the second half of the XXth century, diverse currents of hatred marked the populations, but the one who is the most important is doubtless the hatred of the Jew. L’été 1939, avant l’orage of Jean-Pierre Charland's is a historical novel and tells under the fiction real facts of this disturbed time. Charland chose the detective genre to lead a not only fictitious inquiry, but also historic. Indeed, the fiction and the reality interlace by the use of real facts and by the references to the political personalities involved in the government of 1939. The novel of Jean Pierre Charland, L’été 1939, avant l’orage, brings us in the province of Quebec in the middle of a crisis economic. This detective story brings to light the social and ethnic tensions of time marked by the intolerance and the racism. The spirits warm up, and certain persons take advantage of it to remind to the French Canadians the novel of Lionel Groulx L’appel à la race which will be for them their Bible of the anti-semitic propaganda.