![]() Lou sorts through all these items, evaluating their usefulness as historical artifacts, though much of it seems to her to suspiciously resemble the detritus of daily life.Īs the story opens, Toronto is in the grips of one of its long winters, a time when Lou “lives like a mole,” (9) simply passing from her apartment to her office and back. Hidden away in a basement office, she sits quite literally buried in her work: piles of papers, books and other objects sent to the institute by people who felt there might value in them, and so couldn’t bring themselves to through away. The main character, Lou, works as an archivist at a Historical Institute in Toronto. ![]() ![]() Translated into Spanish from the original English by Magdalena Palmerīritish actress Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell is famously reported to have said: “It doesn’t make any difference what you do in the bedroom as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.” Such broad equanimity was apparently not displayed by many readers of Marian Engel’s novel Bear: the notes on the back of the edition I read describe it as “being considered one of the best (and most controversial) novels of Canadian literature.” And, in fact, Bear is not for the easily offended. ![]()
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