![]() ![]() ![]() in Canadian Literature from McGill University. This subterfuge contributes to establishing Glassco's distinctive position in Canadian literary history, that of a twentieth-century successor to the literary dandies, aesthetes, and decadents of nineteenth-century England and France. Literary subterfuge pervades not only the premise on which Memoirs of Montparnasse is founded, but also the dialogue, the plot structure, the characterizations, and the events that are supposed to have happened. Like Frederick Philip Grove and Grey Owl, Glassco too has transformed himself into a person of his own creation. With the narrative energy of a psychological detective story, it compares the published book to its holograph manuscript. Montreal-born John Glassco (1909-1981) was described in one obituary as a poet, translator, and pornographer, and an elegant memoirist of the Paris years. ![]() John Glassco's Richer World shows that Memoirs of Montparnasse is not the honest reminiscence Glassco presents it to be. ![]()
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