Most Popular Books by Michel Tremblay

An evocative account of romantic adventure stamped with Tremblay''s signature wit and ironic humour.

Michel Tremblay''s classic joual play. Cast of 15 women. "A tart but human satire on Canadian life and aspirations". -- Vancouver Sun Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The life of a lower-class family in East End Montreal. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

A fusty academic has fallen in love with a young actor working as a salesman while waiting for his big break; however, the academic must learn to make room in his life for the actor''s 4-year-old son.

Voyage dans lunivers intérieur dun homme qui tente de recoller les morceaux dune vie quil nest plus certain davoir choisie. Chroniqueur dhumeurs pour Le Journal, Daniel Martin est plongé dans un coma à la suite dun accident. Ce moment de suspension entre la réalité et le rêve, entre tous les hommes quil a été et tous ceux quil veut devenir, devient loccasion dun véritable bilan qui le mènera sans doute à rompre avec le cynisme inhérent à son époque. (CEAD).

New translation of Tremblay''s seminal 1970 play, where one family battles its awful past while facing a haunted present.

In Albertine in Five Times, Michel Tremblay portrayed one of his most unforgettable characters during five decades of her life, beginning in her thirties. Now, in Past Perfect, we meet Albertine at twenty and discover the dark secret of her being. Still reeling from the heartbreak that plunged her into a nervous breakdown, Albertine sets out to re-conquer the beau she has lost to her younger sister. On this fated Thursday evening, will she find the strength to survive the crisis that grips her very essence in this dark night of her soul? Or will she spend the rest of her days foundering in an endless rage that could extinguish all hope of love ever lighting up her life? In the eyes of her mother, Victoire, her brother, Édouard, and her sister, Madeleine, Albertine is a soul on fire that devours everything she touches. But in her own eyes, Albertine is sensitive, selfless, and devoted to the objects of her desires. In this extremity of contradiction between the way we see ourselves and the way others see us, Tremblay stages the agony of the imagination in chains, the tragedy of an understanding of the imagination as a way to the "truth," rather than as a path to understanding. Caught in this dilemma, Albertine, who has cast herself as a sacrificial lamb, a victim of destiny, the queen of unhappiness, descends into a hell of lucidity as she confronts Alex, the great hope and passion of her youth. Cast of three women and two men.

The stormy relationship between Claude and his father Alex displays cruel irony on an Alzheimer''s ward. Cast of 2 men.

March, 1963. Winter has launched its final assault on Montreal. The Fat Woman, Thérèse, Édouard, Pierrette, Marcel, all the star-crossed characters of Tremblay''s Chronicles of Plateau-Mont-Royal are here again, 20 years later. Marcel, now 23, learns that his Auntie Nana--The Fat Woman who is here finally named--is gravely ill and her days are numbered. How will he, with his exaggerated sensitivity, his visions, his ongoing struggle with "reality" pit his fertile imagination against this inexorable march of death? In five epiphanic visions that take us from a nineteenth-century London pub to a reworking of Michelangelo''s Last Judgement, Marcel uses his gift of the creative imagination to break the eternal spiral of new beginnings, and to thumb his nose at despair and resignation. Presented here, side by side, is Tremblay''s fictionalized account of the death of his own mother, so lovingly enacted in his new play, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. In what becomes a coda to his great Chronicles of the Plateau-Mont-Royal cycle of novels, Tremblay creates, with grace and tenderness, a redemption and transcendent grandeur for these familiar and beloved characters: A Thing of Beauty.