You can’t imagine how happy I was when Paul St-Pierre Plamondon quoted one of Quebec’s greatest poets in his Victory/Defeat speech Monday night.
As the young leader of the PQ, just elected in Camille-Laurin, said: ‘Tonight we didn’t come back to come back. We have arrived at what begins,” he paraphrased a famous quote from Gaston Miron, author of L’homme rapaillé.
phew! It felt good to have a little beauty, a little finesse and a little poetry in the middle of those political speeches on Monday night, after a campaign where we barely talked about culture. .
THE VEROGATE
Why was I so touched as PSPP quotes Gaston Miron?
1– Because I love poetry. 2- Because I fear that Quebec will forget its greatest authors.
We’ve been asking ourselves the question “Who is Véro?” for the last two weeks. Because of Louis Morissette’s text in Véro magazine in which he asked: “Who is Véronique Cloutier?”
Because of Guy Natel’s vox-pop at Dawson College, where English and French students didn’t recognize the host.
But also after the Graduate School of Media Arts and Technology at Cégep de Jonquière published a study involving 600 students on their culture and media consumption habits. The teachers were surprised that some of their students did not know Vero.
- Listen to the Nantel Durocher meeting on the Sophie Durocher Show, broadcast live daily at 3pm. above QUB radio :
I think instead of asking young people if they know Véro to measure their knowledge of the culture, we should ask them if they know Gaston Miron. Has the national poet been completely forgotten today?
I love Véronique Cloutier, I loved her documentary Loto-Méno (which had a real and resounding impact on the lives of Quebec women), she shines on TV and radio, but she’s entertaining.
If we want to assess young Quebecers’ knowledge or appreciation of their own culture, we might want to ask them what they know about culture.
I find it much more serious that a CEGEP student does not know Michel Tremblay or Robert Lepage, Dany Laferrière or Kim Thuy, that he has never heard of Riopelle or Marc Séguin. How many young people from the south-west pass by the Marie-Uguay cultural center but don’t know anything about the poet who died at the age of 26?
Every year, the artists who built modern Quebec die of indifference because young people don’t know who they are. Yves Desgagnés recently told me on QUB radio that on the day of Michelle Rossignol’s death, when invited to appear on television for a different issue, the show’s researcher told him not to mention the actress’ death because it was public not interesting enough. ..
- Listen to the Durocher – Dutrizac match live every day at 12:40 p.m. above QUB radio :
A COUNTRY REACHED
A culture lives when it circulates.
Gaston Miron died in 1996. But he will never die as long as politicians and ordinary citizens continue to quote him like this in the course of a sentence in favor of a speech.
“I’m in the center of the world while it rumbles inside me.”
