Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

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by Nicole Brossard


  How much has the eye to weigh in the balance?

  What does the dream between two eyelids measure?

  How much does a closed eye, the eye of death,

  an eye peeled weigh in your hand?

  Also featured in this novel are quotes from Assia Djébar, Silvina Ocampo, Violette Leduc and Dante Alighieri.

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  Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

  To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  Paradiso by José Lezama Lima

  L’obéissance by Suzanne Jacob

  Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

  Le monde sur le flanc de la truite by Robert Lalonde

  The Euguelion by Louky Bersianik

  Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

  The Book of Promethea by Hélène Cixous

  Heroine by Gail Scott

  Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute

  Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Xavier Marias

  Molloy by Samuel Beckett

  Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

  The Last of the African Kings by Maryse Condé

  Time Regained by Marcel Proust

  The First Man by Albert Camus

  Fortuny by Pere Gimferrer

  The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaétan Soucy

  Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch

  Fontainebleau by Michael Delisle

  Le soir du dinosaure by Cristina Peri Rossi

  Blue Eyes, Black Hair by Marguerite Duras

  Un homme est une valse by Pauline Harvey

  My Year in the No-Man’s-Bay by Peter Handke

  Les derniers jours de Noah Eisenbaum by Andrée Michaud

  Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi

  Two Stories of Prague by Rainer Maria Rilke

  Next Episode by Hubert Aquin

  Cobra by Severo Sarduy

  La vie en prose by Yolande Villemaire

  The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig

  Technique du marbre by Béatrice Leca

  Mauve Desert by Nicole Brossard

  Extinction by Thomas Bernhard

  The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq

  Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc

  La déconvenue by Louise Cotnoir

  Meroë by Olivier Rolin

  These Festive Nights by Marie-Claire Blais

  In the Shadow of the Wind by Anne Hébetr

  The Christmas Oratorio by Goran Tunstrom

  Le livre du devoir by Normand de Bellefeuille

  Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

  The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy

  E. Luminata by Diamela Eltit

  The Palace by Claude Simon

  Parc univers by Hugues Corriveau

  The Sea by Michelet

  Microcosms by Claudio Magris

  Dios No Nos Quiere Contentos by Griselda Gambaro

  La nuit by Jacques Ferron

  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

  The Swallower Swallowed by Réjean Ducharme

  Paulina 1880 by Pierre-Jean Jouve

  Memoria by Louise Dupré

  Dust over the City by André Langevin

  Pylon by William Faulkner

  A Universal History of Infamy by Jorge Luis Borges

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

  Jos Connaissant by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

  Nous parlerons comme on écrit by France Théoret

  Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec

  About the Author

  Born in Montréal, poet, novelist and essayist BROSSARD, NICOLE has published more than thirty books since 1965 and has twice won the Governor General’s Award for her poetry. Most of her books have been translated into English: Mauve Desert, The Aerial Letter, Picture Theory, Lovhers, Baroque at Dawn, The Blue Books, Installations, Museum of Bone and Water, Intimate Journal and, more recently, Fluid Arguments and the Governor General’s Award–shortlisted Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon. She has co-founded and co-directed the literary magazine La Barre du Jour (1965–1975), co-directed the film Some American Feminists (1976) and co-edited the much acclaimed Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec, first published in 1991 and then in 2003. She has also won le Grand Prix de Poésie du Festival International de Trois-Rivières in 1989 and 1999. In 1991, she was awarded le Prix Athanase-David (the highest literary recognition in Québec). She is a member of l’Académie des lettres du Québec. She won the 2003 W. O. Mitchell Prize. Her work has been widely translated into Spanish and is also available in German, Italian, Japanese, Slovenian, Romanian, Catalan and other languages. Nicole Brossard writes and lives in Montréal.

  About the Translator

  SUSANNE DE LOTBINIÈRE-HARWOOD lives and teaches in Montréal, her hometown. She is the auther of Re-belle et infidèle: la traduction comme pratique de ré-écriture au féminin / The Body Bilingual: translation as a rewriting in the feminine (Remue-ménage/Women’s Press, 1991), and of many texts about her practice of both literary and art-text translation. As a translator she has co-authored numerous works of theory and fiction into English and into French. Her practice has led to parallel art experiences such as years of ‘performative lecturing’ in North America and Europe, and an exhibition of her art-text translation artifacts (La Centrale/Powerhouse, Montréal, 2001). This is the third Nicole Brossard novel she has translated (the other two are Mauve Desert and She Would Be the First Sentence of My Next Novel). She was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 2005 for her translation of Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon.

  Typeset in Granjon

  Printed and bound at the Coach House on bpNichol Lane, 2005

  Translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood

  Edited and designed by Alana Wilcox

  Cover design by Stan Bevington

  Cover image, In that inner space, by Betty Goodwin [1994, Graphite and oil stick over gelatin silver print on translucent mylar film (Cronaflex), 94 by 73.6 cm]. Courtesy of the Galerie René Blouin, Montreal.

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