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It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the literary delirium that is Readopolis—a world imagined out of Chicago and Montreal, with few inhabitants, a convenience store, a parrot, and all kinds of dialogues running amok: cinematic, epistolary, theatrical, and Socratic.
In the pages of Readopolis (LectodÔme in the original French), Laverdure playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Funny and sardonic, whimsical and tragic, this postmodern novel with touches of David Foster Wallace and Raymond Queneau portrays the global village of readers that the Internet created, even before the 2.0 revolution.
Bertrand Laverdure
Né en 1967, Bertrand Laverdure est poète, romancier, performeur, blogueur, « technicien coiffeur », recherchiste et chroniqueur pour l’émission littéraire Tout le monde tout lu! à MAtv. Il s'intéresse à la multidisciplinarité en littérature. En poésie, il a notamment publié Rires (Noroît 2004), Sept et demi (Le Quartanier, 2007) et Rapport de stage en milieu humain (Triptyque,2014). Ses romans, dont Gomme de xanthane (Triptyque, 2006), Lectodôme (Quartanier, 2008), J’invente la piscine (roman pour adolescents, La courte échelle, 2010), ainsi que Bureau universel des copyrights (La Peuplade,2011), ont tous reçu un accueil critique chaleureux. Il a participé à plusieurs collectifs d’auteurs, dont Être un héros (La courte échelle, 2011), deux collectifs au Quartanier et Bienvenue aux dames (VLB, 2014). La traduction en anglais de Bureau universel des copyrights est parue chez Bookthug à Toronto en octobre 2014. Il a obtenu le prix Joseph S. Stauffer, décerné par le Conseil des arts du Canada, en 1999. Il a également reçu le prix Rina-Lasnier en 2003 pour son recueil Les forêts (Noroît, 2000), recueil qui fut aussi retenu comme finaliste au prix Émile-Nelligan en 2000. Son livre Audioguide (Noroît, 2002), a aussi été en nomination pour le Grand Prix du Festival international de Poésie de Trois-Rivières en 2003.
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