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Volume 24, Number 2 (1999)

From Manna to Money: The Narrative Structure of Yves Thériault's Aaron

Submitted
April 1, 2010
Published
1999-06-01

Abstract

Yves Theriault was a popular and prolific writer not known for his literary craftsmanship, yet his novel Aaron is a structural masterpiece. A close reading of the novel reveals how the structuring device of perfect symmetry identified by Renald Berube serves to illuminate its central themes: the confrontation between tradition and change in the modern world and the absence of a mediating force.