Mister Blue

by

Translated from by

Published: Published January 2012

$16.00

ISBN: 9781935744313

One of Jacques Poulin’s masterpieces, this tender and perceptive tale explores the textures of solitude, compassion, language, fear, and the imagination. Meet Jim: a writer suffering from vivid dreams and bouts of writer’s block. Meet Mister Blue, a dignified and prophetic cat and Jim’s sole companion that spring on the Ile d’Orleans. That is, until the day they discover a copy of The Arabian Nights in a cave along the beach. Tinged with heartbreak as well as joy, Mister Blue is a novel of subtle shadows and emotions, of wide-open blue sky–a ballet of the impossible.

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One of Jacques Poulin’s masterpieces, this tender and perceptive tale explores the textures of solitude, compassion, language, fear, and the imagination. Meet Jim: a writer suffering from vivid dreams and bouts of writer’s block. Meet Mister Blue, a dignified and prophetic cat and Jim’s sole companion that spring on the Ile d’Orleans. That is, until the day they discover a copy of The Arabian Nights in a cave along the beach. Tinged with heartbreak as well as joy, Mister Blue is a novel of subtle shadows and emotions, of wide-open blue sky–a ballet of the impossible.

One of my favorite writers in the world is Jacques Poulin.

— Rawi Hage


This is a great and very beautiful novel.

— Le Devoir


The writer hiding from the world in his house on the beach is as shy and charming and friendly as this light, generous, refreshing novel. . . told with Hemingway-like sparseness and minimal melodrama. . .Poulin earns his lump-in-the-throat ending.

— Shelf Awareness


Peruse translator Sheila Fischman’s interview with carte blanche in which she explains how she got into translating and how she’s managed to be so prolific, translating more than 125 books in her lifetime thus far.

A selected bibliography of secondary literature on Jacques Poulin’s work.

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