Jacques Ferron, Tales from the Uncertain Country and Other. Stories, translated
and with an afterword by Betty Bednarski. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (New ...
Jacques Ferron, Tales from the Uncertain Country and Other Stories, translated and with an afterword by Betty Bednarski. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (New Canadian Library), 2010. ISBN 978-0-7710-9404-0 Montreal family doctor Jacques Ferron (1921-1985) was one of the major writers of 20th century Quebec and without a doubt Canada’s greatest physician writer. Betty Bednarski (Professor Emerita of French at Dalhousie University and former Coordinator of the Dalhousie Canadian Studies programme) has published a revised an expanded collection of her translations of Ferron’s short stories – forty-one “tales” that are among the most celebrated works in modern Quebec fiction. Ferron writes metaphysical fables, fantastic tall tales, doctor stories, political satire, portraits of men and women in all walks of life, with great originality and a profound sympathy for the human condition. Long a classic in French, the collection of stories now takes its place in English in the New Canadian Library of Canadian classics.
