Kevin Lambert Book order (chronological)

In Kevin Lamberts Roman „Querelle de Roberval“ wird ein Jahr lang der Arbeitskampf in einem Sägewerk im kanadischen Norden dargestellt. Die Geschichte folgt dem schönen Querelle und seiner queeren Freundin Jézabel, die das Weltbild der homophoben Arbeiter erschüttern. Der Roman thematisiert Wut, Ausbeutung und Umweltzerstörung in einem einzigartigen literarischen Stil.

Le portrait d'une millionnaire de gauche, entre grandeur et décadence, qui met en lumière les mutations urbaines et les inégalités. ©Electre 2023.

"When millworkers in Roberval, a northern Quebec logging town, go on strike, the conflict rips the close-knit community apart, and despite the workers' solidarity, their individual struggles and demands further escalate tensions within the group. They remain united by the desire to escape poverty and exact revenge on their boss, but when Brian Ferland decrees a lockout and awakens in them a buried rage, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashingly cosmopolitan newcomer from Montreal. By day, Querelle walks the picket lines with his cohort, but at night he breaks bottles on the beach and settles scores with baseball bats and the town's privileged young men flock to his apartment for sex. As positions harden and both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent. Homage to Jean Genet's antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge."--

Reveling in its own perversity, this horror tale accuses suburban Quebec of abusing and murdering its children-then takes revenge.