News (Selection)

SUMMER 2010

A new book to be published during the fall: La Nouvelle québécoise. The very first survey of 150 years of short stories production in francophone Quebec, due in Montreal by HMH, "Les Cahiers du Québec".

Guest editor of issue 105 of the short story journal XYZ La Revue de la nouvelle on the theme of "Fenêtres". Issue completed with selection of texts and presentation, due.

Featured TV interview with Louise Lacourcière, “Par-delà l’image”, Vox TV (Videotron), 30 minutes. Recorded June 11, 2010. First broadcast, June 21, 2010, 9:00pm. Community TV, Trois-Rivières, Quebec (Canada).

"Pourquoi encore écrire?" Invited essay for a book published by EAT (Écrivains Associés du Théâtre). Completed, due in Paris by L'Avant-Scène.

"La crise de l'éternel féminin: La littérature  érotique féminine dans la Francophonie contemporaine" Invited chapter in Oktapoda, Efstratia, ed. Mythes et érotismes dans la littérature francophone contemporaine. Completed Nov. 2009, due.

SPRING 2010

Work completed: "Le monde arabe dans l'oeuvre de Le Clézio" for Heyndels, Ralph ed. Les Écrivains français devant le monde arabe.  « Travaux de littérature ». Genève, Droz. & ADIREL (Association pour la Diffusion de la Recherche littéraire), due.

Publications due:
 -"Pour une étude de la représentation corporelle chez Marguerite Duras. Notes exploratoires." A book chapter in Constantin Grigorut, & Steiciuc, Elena-Brandusa, eds. Mythes et symboles dans les littératures francophones. Dunedin, New Zealand, Otago French Notes, due.

FEBRUARY 2010

Keynote speaker, Southern Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Film, USF, Tampa (USA), Feb. 26, 2010.

JANUARY 2010

Course offerings at University of South Florida, Tampa:

African and Caribbean Literatures in French

Great French Love Stories in English Translation

DECEMBER 2009

« Mes bibliothèques. » Invited essay for Le Billet des Auteurs de Théâtre, Internet, December 1st , 2009. http://www.lebilletdesauteursdetheatre.com/

 -“La Barbarie moderne”, short story in XYZ, completed December 1st 2009.

-"Propos de chambres", La Prose du monde, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (France), completed Dec. 2009, due October 2010.

-Gyurcsik, Margareta, "Les jeux/enjeux  interculturels  de  Gaëtan  Brulotte," in « (En) Jeux identitaires », Dialogues francophones 15, U. of Timisoara, Romania, 2009, 73-86. A critical study of my short story "Le Complexe de Putiphar" in La Vie de biais.

« Soudain, la conscience, et les questions commencent. » Invited text around Chauvet cave paintings,  completed Dec. 2009, due in France by Cahiers de l’Égaré.

NOVEMBER 2009

Invited participation in a round-table on the literary genre of short story with Gilles Archambault, Louis-Philippe Hébert & Monique Proulx, at Olivieri bookstore in Montreal (Canada), on November 12, 2009. Recorded for Radio Spirale.

http://www.spiralemagazine.com/radio_spirale/13_olivieri.html

"Cent jours avec Caroline. Centenier,” short story in XYZ (100), 2009, 13-23.

Interview with Steven Urquhart, "Gaëtan devant son oeuvre", Quebec Studies 47 (Summer 2009), pp. 57-72. Link to the journal site.

OCTOBER 2009

Invited participation in the international event "Territoire et imaginaire", which involved 33 playwrights and took place in Laurac (Ardèche, France) on Octobre 15-18 2009, around the 33,000 years old cave paintings of Chauvet.

Interview with Laurent Gauriat, Radio France Bleu, Aubenas (France), Oct. 15 2009. On my participation in the event “Territoire et imaginaire” at Laurac. 10 minutes.

"Cent ans de révolte dans la nouvelle québécoise," an article in XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle (Montreal), for its 99th issue, 2009, 63-83.

AUGUST 2009

Interview with Steven Urquhart, “Gaëtan Brulotte devant son oeuvre” in Quebec Studies (spring/summer 2009), Vol. 47 pp. 57-72. Link to the journal.
Couses offered at USF, Tampa (USA), fall 2009:

APRIL-JUNE 2009

La Liquidation, a play. Selection 2008-2009 in France by Influenscènes' Comité de lecture de Fontenay-sous-Bois, among 44 submitted scripts. This is a jury of 15 specialists in contemporary drama, which selects new plays for yearly public stage reading. May 22, 2009.

Interview by US celebrity Montel Williams, on his popular national progressive radio talk show "Montel Accross  America", April 24, 2009. Live, 10 minutes, on romance.

Nominated for a Carnegie "Professor of the Year" national award.

Article published: "Désirs de femmes: l’expression érotique féminine dans la littérature française contemporaine." Dans Erman, Michel, ed. Autofiction(s). Toulouse, Fr.: Éditions Universitaires du Sud, "Champs du Signe", 73-95.

Book chapter published: "Pour un imaginaire du goût" in M. Erman (ed.), Le Goût dans tous ses états, Peter Lang (Bern, Switzerland), "Littératures de langue française", 21-32. ISBN: 9783039117536

MARCH 2009

"Le Monde du peintre Jean Paul Lemieux." Invited featured address (with 100 slides), Musée des Beaux-Arts du Mont Saint-Hilaire (Quebec, Canada), March 17, 2009.

A critical study of my collection of short stories Le Surveillant was published by Romanian scholar Margareta Gyurcsik,   "Kafka de Montréal." XYZ (Montreal) 96 (Winter 2008-09): 65-79.
Excerpts: "C'est pourquoi on pourrait conclure que l'absurde «tranquille» de Gaëtan Brulotte n'est tranquille qu'en apparence. Il exprime au fond les inquiétudes de l'écrivain postmoderne et relance sous une forme nouvelle et dans un langage «minimaliste et dépouillé» (J.-P. Boucher), teinté d'ironie et d'humour, l'interrogation sur le sens dans sa double hypostase : sens de l'existence, sens de l'écriture. Il est d'ailleurs intéressant de remarquer que Brulotte a publié en 2003 un essai sur l'écriture intitulé La Chambre des lucidités.  Comme si, à l'instar de Kafka, il avait voulu suggérer qu'écrire signifie, avant toute chose, "dégager la clarté cachée"."

FEBRUARY 2009

One Shop Stopping. A new English translation by Richard Lebeau (Canada) of my play Le Client is now available and is being presented on the CEAD website.

JANUARY 2009

Keynote address at conference "Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender": "La littérature érotique et la question du genre : la place des femmes dans l'érographie française." Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Jan 30 2009.

 Honorary board member, Otago French Notes, Dunnedin, New Zealand.  


AUGUST 2008

  • Participation in a public poetry reading, Port of Trois-Rivières (Quebec, Canada), August 24 2008.

JULY 2008

  • Featured interview with Chip Rowe, Senior Editor, Playboy Magazine online, July 10. New York, 30 minutes. Sur Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, co-ed w. J. Phillips.
Link to spotlight : http://www.playboy.com/sex/index.html
Link to edited interview: http://www.playboy.com/sex/features/dirty-words/dirty-words.html

 

  • Publication of "La voix secrète" in an anthology by Mottet, Philippe. Nouvelles à chutes. Montréal, Editions du Renouveau pédagogique, 2008: 56-61. ISBN:978-2-7613-2743-5

 

  • July 2nd: « La tradition et le genre de la nouvelle au Québec : 150 ans de révolte des écrivains », an invited presentation at the world conference of CIEF, Limoges (France). Program in French.

 

JUNE 2008

 

  • -June 23rd : participation in "Les Intellectuels et artistes pour le plurilinguisme et la diversité culturelle", organised by the Observatoire européen du Plurilinguisme, under the UNESCO, Paris.

 

Invited reading of: "De Babel à Jingle" (on the mercantile appropriation of language by international companies). Click here to read the text in French with some English expressions.
Click here to listen to my reading of the text at the UNESCO in Paris.
 

To listen to the entire event click on : Program of event

Signature of Livre d'Or de l'Observatoire européen du Plurilinguisme.

Page on invited author

 

  • -June 13: The Encyclopedia Of Erotic Literature: A short presentation of this reference book, from women's view point, followed by a survey of women's erotic literature throughout history in France up to the contemporary explosion of sexual confessions. Université Populaire de Caen (within the seminar of Alexandra Destais). Link to the full text in French of this lecture: click here

 

 

  • -June 4: Publication of the Italian translation of my novel L'Emprise (Double Exposure) in Rome (Editrice Il Sirente): Doppia exposizionne. ISBN 978-88-87847-13-0

Launching at the Roman cultural association Il Baffo d'oro, with the translator, Rahel Francesca Genre, who read excerpts, which were commented upon by the author. The event was caught on video for archives.

Italian Presentation of the book:
The publisher's series "Fuori"
Announcement of the translation on Sirente Wordpress
 

 

Announcement of visit to Rome on the Internet site of Canadian Embassy in Rome:

 

MAY 2008

G. Brulotte is the guest editor of issue 94 of the short story journal XYZ La Revue de la nouvelle on the theme of "SORTIES". This issue was published in May.

http://www.xyzedit.qc.ca/revue.php?lang=fr

APRIL 2008

 Publication of new paperback revised edition of my collection of short stories La Vie de biais, Montreal, "BQ" series, 201p. ISBN 978-2-89406-290-6

MARCH 2008

  • Interview for Playboy (Radio Sirius Satellite Channel, Los Angeles ), with John Phillips and Tiffany Granath, "Afternoon Advice", March 20, 2008. Live, 20 minutes. (5 millions listeners daily)
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  • Main organizer of International Conference on The State of Taste, USF, Tampa, FL , 28-29. Click on link for program

 

FEBRUARY 2008

 

  • Invited lecture on Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature "A Main Event Lecture Series", USF Humanities Institute, Tampa, FL , Feb 14, 2008. 

To view entire lecture (one hour) click here
 

  • Interview with Keith Morelli "Birds, Bees Do It; Love Doctor Explains It". The Tampa Tribune, Feb 14, 2008, Metro, p. 2.

To read interview, click here

 

  • The Times Literary Supplement ( London ) published a review by R. Irwin of Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (Feb 8, 2008)

To read the response by G. Brulotte and J. Phillips, TLS Feb 22, 2008, click here:

 

JANUARY 2008

 

 

  • Dimitriu-Panaitescu, Corina, dir. "Gaetan Brulotte." (by Steiciuc, Elena B.). Canada francofona. Dictionar de autori A-B. Iasi, Romania: Casa Editoriala Demiurg, 2007: 152-156. ISBN 978-973-152-013-1

MAY 2007

NEW EDITION of my novel L'Emprise is now available in its 4th paperback revised edition in the series BQ (Bibliothèque québécoise) in Montreal.This novel is available in English translation as Double exposure.

On this novel a critical study in French can be read online at this link: 
 

The critic shares some interesting and pertinent reflexions on this novel. Here is an excerpt in French

 "L'auteur est maintenant solidement entré dans le répertoire des nouveaux écrivains de la littérature postmoderne. Dans L'Emprise, Brulotte couvre la gamme des philosophies littéraires modernes, du réalisme au déconstructionisme, qu'il synthétise dans une nouvelle philosophie personnelle, le haptisme. (…) On s'aperçoit peu à peu que L'emprise de Brulotte est un roman à plusieurs niveaux qui implique tout le monde dans une mise en abîme vertigineuse : l'écrivain lui-même, son personnage principal, le personnage sur lequel Block écrit, mais aussi le lecteur qui finalement subit lui aussi l'emprise du système linguistique. (…) L'Emprise introduit subtilement un élément paranoïaque qui fait s'interroger le lecteur sur sa propre condition humaine et sur les rapports de force qu'il entretient avec autrui, avec la Nature et avec lui-même."

 (King, Kathryn G. W. Block et débloque : l'écrivain dans la toile du texte. Une étude littéraire de L'Emprise par Gaëtan Brulotte. U du Manitoba, 1999. )

 APRIL 2007

DRAMA. Excerpts of my play in French La Liquidation were staged by students from the Drama Department at the University Stendhal Grenoble III, in France , on April 27, 2007. Stage director: Marie Bernanoce.