![]() This blog post exists purely to convince myself that reading Bear wasn’t a complete waste of time. I drew a page of it…I got as far as the cucumber scene before losing my will to draw. As I pointed out in my last post, I’ve read Bear for the purposes of doing a Visual Guide much like my Visual Guide to Boneshaker. The book was written with the help of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts-the grant application might have outlined a work significantly different than the final draft, but you never know. It was reprinted as part of the New Canadian Library ( “synonymous with the best that has been thought, felt, and written in Canada”) select under an advisory board including, once again, Nobel-prize winning author Alice Munro. The jury panel included Alice Munroe, Margaret Laurence, and Mordecai Richler. ![]() It won the Governor General’s Award for 1976. It’s about a dreary, unfulfilled urbanite archivist named Lou who leaves Toronto when she gets an assignment to catalogue the books in a 19th-century house somewhere in northern Ontario when she gets there, she finds out the previous owner kept a pet bear who the neighbours still feed. ![]() ![]() It surprises me this didn’t happen earlier- Bear is the kind of strange book the internet gravitates towards. ![]() Shortly after I discovered Bear (1976) by Marian Engel existed it became a minor internet meme. ![]()
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