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Régine Robin

レジーヌ・ロバン

Régine Robin

Aliases: リフカ・アイゼルシュテイン

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1939-12-10 (Paris)
Died
2021-02-03 (Montreal) age 81
Nationality
French, Canadian
Languages
French
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Paris, France (1939-1977) → Montreal, Canada (1977-2021)

Career

Occupations
historian, novelist, translator, professor of sociology
Active Years
1970-2021
Affiliations
Université du Québec à Montréal, Inter-University Centre for Discourse Analysis and Sociocriticism of Texts
Memberships
Royal Society of Canada

Education

Sorbonne
Geography / Geography
Period: 1962
Year of Graduation: 1962
Country: France
Sorbonne
History / History
Period: 1963
Year of Graduation: 1963
Country: France
Université de Dijon
History
Degree: 博士号
Period: 1969
Year of Graduation: 1969
Country: France
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Degree: 博士号
Period: 1989
Year of Graduation: 1989
Country: France

Awards

Governor-General's Award
1986
Work: Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic
Category: フランス語ノンフィクション部門
Organization: Government of Canada
Result: 受賞
Martin and Beatrice Fischer Prize for Fiction
1989
Work: The Wanderer
Result: 受賞
Grand Prix du Livre de la Ville de Montréal
2001
Work: L'immense fatigue des pierres
Organization: Ville de Montréal
Result: 受賞
Grand Prix du Livre de la Ville de Montréal
2001
Work: Berlin chantiers
Organization: Ville de Montréal
Result: 受賞
Prix Jacques-Rousseau
1994
Category: 学際的貢献
Organization: Acfas
Result: 受賞
Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
1994
Organization: French Government
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La Québécoite

1983 Novel

Explores identity of Quebec women

identityculture
Translations
  • The Wanderer (English translation, 1989)

Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic

1987 Non-fiction

Discusses socialist realism aesthetics

literary theorysocialism
Translations
  • Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic (English, 1992)

L'immense fatigue des pierres

2001 Short stories

Collection of stories

identity

Berlin chantiers

2001 Novel

Bibliography

  • La Société française en 1789 : Semur-en-Auxois (1970)
  • Le Cheval blanc de Lénine (1979)
  • La Québécoite (1983)
  • Le Réalisme socialiste: Une esthétique impossible (1987)
  • Kafka (1989)
  • L'immense fatigue des pierres (2001)
  • Berlin chantiers (2001)
  • La mémoire saturée (2003)
  • Cybermigrances: Traversées fugitives (2004)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
postmodernism
Recurring Motifs
identityculturesociological practice of literature

Legacy

Known as Montreal's grande dame of postmodernism. Awarded for works on identity, culture, and sociological literature.