Désirs d’amour, magazine et culture moyenne chez Gabrielle Roy. Autour de trois nouvelles sentimentales publiées dans La Revue moderne en 1940

The article is written in French but has an English version of the abstract:

We take a close look at the first fictions written by Gabrielle Roy at the beginning of the ’40s. During this period, the future author of Bonheur d’occasion took advantage of the legitimacy and the popularity of widely circulated magazines such as La Revue moderne and Bulletin des agriculteurs to make herself known in the literary field by producing sentimental short stories. Left behind by literary history, they reformulate significantly the popular love story genre to satisfy the tastes and the social ambitions of the middle-class. Our analysis concerns three short stories published in La Revue moderne in 1940. It demonstrates, on one hand, the existence of a poetics of the middlebrow at work in the rich literary corpus published in Quebecois magazines at that time and, on the other hand, Gabrielle Roy’s writing strategies within the framework of sentimental fiction.