News (A selection)
FALL 2013Courses scheduled at the University of South Florida:
-Advanced Conversation in French: Link to a general presentation
-20th-21st Century French Novel: Link to a general presentationSPRING 2013
-Invited external evaluator, Ph. D. dissertation, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (France), March-June. L'implicite dans "A la recherche du temps perdu". Etude sur un aspect du discours proustien, by Lubna Hussein Salman.
-Tribute to poet and short story writer Clément Marchand (1912-2013), Chapel, St-Joseph Seminaire, Trois-Rivieres (QC). May 18, 2013. Video recorded.
-Prof. Sylvie Gendron has built an original pedagogical document for journal Québec français on her experience at teaching at a Quebec college my essay La Chambre des lucidités. This dossier includes a reflexion on the genre of literary essay, excerpts of students letters to the author and my response to these letters. March.
-My collection of short stories Le Surveillant (The Secret Voice) inspired the formation of mucical band in Manitoba, Canad: Les Surveillantes. See their site: www.lessurveillantes.com. See also their interview in French on Longueur d'ondes (on their site), where they reveal their inspiration source.
-Guest author & speaker at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, March 13-15, 2013."Considérations sur l’art de la nouvelle." and "Le structuralisme", series of two lectures as part of the French and Italian Department Symposia Series. Discussion with public, public reading of creative works, book signing.
-"Directions", English translation by Jeremy Townley (US) of "Mode d'emploi" (from Epreuves, Leméac) for The Threepenny Review (California), due. http://www.threepennyreview.com/
-“Le déchet”, reprint of article published in Colloque de Tanger, Paris, Christian Bourgois, 1975, dir G.G Lemaire, Marseille, CIP (Centre international de poésie), April 2013.-Chair of a session at ACSUS, Tampa, FL, Nov 19-23 2013. www.acsus.org. Proposal submitted during spring.
-Guest editor of a special issue of XYZ 117 on "Autorités" (working title). Deadiline for submission in French: June 1st. contact@gbrulotte.com-"Cortazar, source infinie d'inventions." Article in XYZ 113 (Montreal), in press, due this spring.
-Margareta Gyurcsik (Romania) has finished a 200p scholarly book in French about my work. This book is entitled: Gaëtan Brulotte ou la lucidité en partage.
-Angelo Rinaldis (Italy) has finished a philosophical essay on my writings "La cage invisible" (both in French and in Italian) to be submitted for double publication.-Anna Ayoub (Morocco), MA thesis on a stylistic study of my collection of short stories Le Surveillant. Université Chouaïb Doukkali, Faculté des Lettres, El Jadida.
-Ljiljana Matic (Serbia). Paper read "Gaëtan Brulotte, maître des mots et le pouvoir des mots dans L’Emprise, Péces, March 21 2013. This scholar has also translated my novel L'Emprise into Serbian: Belgrad, Clio, 2002.
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-English translation of my collection of short stories, La vie de biais, by Steven Urquhart, in progress.
-Courses scheduled at the University of South Florida:
-Great French Love stories: for description, click here
-Literary Criticism: for description, click hereFALL 2012
-Featured speaker on Quebec short story at the American Council for Quebec Studies, Sarasota (FL), Nov. 10, Hyatt Regency. A public reading and a book-signing session followed
-Part of the 3 judges for the most prestigious literary award in Canada, the General Governor of Canada Literary Award-Category Essays. Representative of the jury to the Medias.
-Ljiljana Matic (Serbia). Paper read "La manière de penser l'autre de Gaëtan Brulotte dans son roman L’Emprise," Novi Sad, November 2012.
-Invited review of André Lamontagne. Le roman québécois contemporain. Les voix sous les mots, published in University of Toronto Quarterly 81.3 (Summer 2012): 433-436.
-3 articles on Quebec short story writers completed for Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec, Tome IX.
-Article completed on a contemporary Quebecois short story writer, for a project in progress.
-Invited review of Oser Eros by Elisa Salaün, for U. of Toronto Quarterly. Completed.-Courses scheduled at the University of South Florida:
-Quebec Literature (taught in French): for description click here.
-Advanced Conversation in French: for description click here.SUMMER 2012
-"Rire et pouvoir." Invited paper read at world congress of International Council on Francophone Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 11. On the relationships between literature, satire and political power.
-“Le Lit des autres." Featured short story in University Affairs/Affaires universitaires (Ottawa), June 2012: 26-29. Illustrated by Sophie Robert.
-"Cortazar, source infinie d'inventions." Article in XYZ 113 (Montreal): accepted June, due.
-Guest editor of a special issue of XYZ on "Fascismes ordinaires" (working title).
SPRING 2012
Courses taught at the University of South Florida:
-Great French Love Stories in Translation: for description click here.
-Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures: for description click here
FALL 2011"Soudain, la conscience, et les questions commencent", a text around the Chauvet Cave paintings, in prestigious Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris. Illustrated. To order click here
"Exil, langue, literature." Introductory article in « Écritures francophones contemporaines », Dialogues francophones n°17/2011 (U of Timisoara, Romania): 11-19.
"Le haptisme en atelier d'écriture littéraire." Article followed by excerpts of discussion and wrap-up of a creative writing worskop, in a volume co-ed. by Daniel Bilous & C.Oriol-Boyer, to come.Featured lecture, La Nouvelle québécoise, Institut d'Arts, Lettres et Histoire, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers, France, Dec, 14, 2011.
Featured lecture and Guest author, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Nov. 24-28 2011, including a book-signing session at Médiathèque, Ecole Francophone La Vérendrye, Lethbridge. Link to event.
Guest writer at Foyers d'écriture publique, Joliette (Québec, Canada), Nov. 4-5, 2011. http://www.lesdonneurs.ca/Site/Accueil.html. Reading of Kawabata Sleeping Beauties in French, writing for and with the public, Interview by Anne-Marie Duquette for L'Action, Nov. 5.
Featured lecture on Quebec Short Story , at "Book Event Series" & "Research One Event", Humanities Institute, USF, Tampa, Florida, October 14, 2011. Click here for details.
SPRING-SUMMER 2011
-Excerpts of TV interview (10 min out of 30) now available in French on Facebook
- "Le haptisme en atelier d'écriture littéraire." Invited plenary presentation and workshop on haptist writing techniques at colloquium "Ateliers d'écriture littéraire", 17th century castle of Cerisy-la-Salle, France, July 15-19, 2011. Click here to access the entire recording of this address. And click here for the Q&A that followed.
-Publication of an article: "Le super-bio." Invited article for Médium (Regis Debray, dir), Paris, 28 (2011): 66-77. Issue co-edited by M. Melot & M. Erman.
-Interview with Paola Grimaldi, Focus Magazine, Italy. Published in Focus Extra (Focus monographic, dedicated to Eros) n° 50 (June 2011): 98. Illustrated. On erotic literature.
-Book signing in Paris June 27, 2011 of my book La Nouvelle québécoise, Café-Librairie La Belle Hortense, 31 Rue Vieille du Temple 75004 Paris, France.
-Public Reading in hommage of French writer Andrée Chedid, Paris, June 15, 2011, Salle IREMMO de l'Espace l'Harmattan, Paris 5e.
-President, Defense jury, Ph.D. dissertation, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, June 7, 2011.
-" Un écrivain en exil dans sa langue", invited paper at session "L’écrivain et l’exil", Conseil International d'Etudes francophones, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 31 2011.
-Publication of a short story, "L’Auberge Désirable”, XYZ (Montreal) 106: 53-64,
-"La riche histoire de la nouvelle littéraire au Québec." Featured speaker, Association des Diplômés universitaires aînés, Trois-Rivières (Quebec, Can.), May 25 2011. Book signing session. For pictures click here.
-Finalist, Prix de littérature Gérald-Godin 2011, for La Nouvelle québécoise, participation in ceremony at Trois-Rivieres (Quebec), May17 2011.WINTER 2011
Publication of article "Une lecture de la nouvelle québécoise: un parcours temporel", in Québec français 160 (hiver 2011): 19-24. To access the presentation, click here.
Guest editor, Les Fenêtres, XYZ 105 (Spring 2011), Montreal. Published.
A critical study published in Serbia as a book chapter on 3 of my works: Matìc, Ljiljana. "Gaetan Brulotte, l'un des auteurs favoris des médias." In Le Lys dans la neige. Essais de littérature québécoise. Novi Sad, Serbia: Filozofski facultet, 2010. 96-109. ISBN 978-86-6065-055-1
FALL 2010
Book signing at Montreal Book Fair, Nov 21, 2010.
Publication online of my article "Cent ans de révolte dans la nouvelle québécoise", XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle (Montréal), No 99, 2009, p. 63-83. http://www.xyzrevue.com/intertexte1.php
Direct access to article: http://www.xyzrevue.com/doc/Brulotte99.pdf
Interview with Gilles Archambault, at Joël Le Bigot popular national program “Pourquoi pas dimanche?”, Radio-Canada, Montréal, Nov 21, 2010. To listen to the interview: http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/samedi_dimanche/2010-2011/ (click on 4th part).
Interview with Sarrah Osama, “Rencontre du 3e titre”, CIBL-FM, Montreal, Sept 28, 2010, 15 min. On La Nouvelle québécoise. To listen to the interview : http://www.cibl1015.com/rencontre-du-3e-titre (click on Sept. 28, 2010)
A new book published : La Nouvelle québécoise. Montreal, HMH, "Les Cahiers du Québec", 340p.. ISBN : 978-2-89647-322-9. The very first survey of 150 years of short stories production in francophone Quebec.
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.
Article completed: "Le super-bio, entre nostalgie et modernité" for Médium, Paris, Oct. 2010.
“Borges.” Invited short essay published in “Enquête sur Borges, les 21 témoignent”, Nuit Blanche 120, Oct-Dec. 2010, 51.
“La Barbarie moderne”, short story published in XYZ 103 (Montreal, Fall 2010), 32-37.
“L’Auberge Désirable”, short story completed for XYZ, Sept 1st.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).
Article published: "Le monde arabe dans l'oeuvre de Le Clézio" in Heyndels, Ralph ed. Les Écrivains français devant le monde arabe. « Travaux de littérature ». Genève, Droz. & ADIREL (Association pour la Diffusion de la Recherche littéraire).
Article published: "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, Nov.
"Pourquoi encore écrire?" Invited essay published in book by Gilles Costaz (Écrivains Associés du Théâtre). Paris, L'Avant-Scène, Nov 2010.
"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.
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:
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.
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:
Littérature québécoise/ Quebec Literature
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
-June 8: "Les mots de la censure". An invited presentation at the Festival du Mot, La Charité-sur-Loire (France), round-table on "La police des paroles". Avec Michel Erman (linguist), François-Bernard Huyghes (sociologist) & Jacqueline Rousseau-Dujardin (psycho-analyst). Program of Festival du Mot, p.22.
- 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.
-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
Great French Love Stories (taught in English): for description, click hereLiterary Criticism (taught in French): for description, 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
- -June 3rd : Interview with le Petit Journal de Rome
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) - 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". TheTampa Tribune, Feb 14, 2008, Metro, p. 2. 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
Interview with Thomas King. "Celebrated Author Reflects on Writing." The Oracle, (
Tampa ) 45.91 (Feb 4, 2008): 3. To read interview, click here. 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, inFrance , on April 27, 2007. Stage director: Marie Bernanoce.