Essai

Alexandre Chenevert

L’inquiétant inquiété de Gabrielle Roy

Éléonore Caron

Published nearly 10 years after Gabrielle Roy’s masterpiece, The Tin Flute, The Cashier is perhaps the black sheep of the author’s novels. Flayed by critics at the time, the novel has since been the subject of conflicting interpretations. With a perpetually restless and eco-anxious cashier, powerless in the face of advertising and propaganda, as its protagonist, The Cashier presents a deeply unsettling vision of modernity that still resonates powerfully today. (ÉC)...