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CTV News
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Northern author talks about her new novel
Northern Ontario Watch Northern Ontario author Brit Griffin talks with Tony Ryma about her new novel 'The Haunting of Modesto O'Brien'. The book tells the tale of a man haunted by his past who finds his way to Cobalt, Ont., during the silver boom of 1907.
New York Times
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Surrealist Classic Shows Us the Uncanny in Everyday Paris
There is an old saying in French: 'Tell me whom you haunt and I will tell you who you are.' As in English, 'haunt' in French (hanter) can have two meanings: to frequent, and to linger as a ghost. The adage, argues the father of Surrealism, André Breton, in his 1928 book 'Nadja,' thus 'says much more than it intends.' We reflect not only the people we associate with most frequently, but also those who turn us into revenants, who draw out the past selves we've long thought buried. For Breton (1896-1966), one of those figures was actually a place. Paris has always been a haunted city. It is not, like New York, a city of progress, but one that compels infinite returns to the past. People have called it a museum of itself. And it is full of flâneurs and loiterers, who, to paraphrase Breton, are doomed to retrace their steps while believing they are moving forward. Breton's most renowned literary work, NADJA (New York Review Books, 131 pp., paperback, $16.95), recently reissued in a deft new translation by Mark Polizzotti, was written as a means of processing and paying homage to two forms of encounter that have long destabilized those who have experienced them: encounters, that is, with a great love and with a great city. Nadja was Breton's love; Paris, his city. In the novel, and in his life, he haunts them both, and they torment him in kind. Nadja is a greenhorn from the north of France, and the focal point of her seduction, as in so many romances, is her eyes, which reflect 'that mix of obscure distress and luminous pride.' Though André, the narrator, is married, this is no serious impediment. He and Nadja meet at cafes, metro stations and shabby hotel rooms. They meet at the corner of Rue Lafayette and Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, a stone's throw from where I am writing this sentence. They stroll past the Sphinx Hôtel, which no longer exists, and take the steps to Breton's room in the Hôtel des Grands Hommes, which does. All the while, as their infatuation develops, deepens and then decays, we register uncanny moments that populate not only the narrative, but also our experience reading the book, which is littered with photographs (taken by Man Ray, the official portraitist of Surrealism, and his assistant Jacques-André Boiffard) of places and faces we feel we have seen before — in films, in dreams or in waking life. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CBC
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Haunting tales of southwestern Ontario featured in new TV series
If you grew up in Windsor-Essex, chances are you've heard some spooky tales. A new TV show will explore those haunting urban legends. The CBC's Darrin DiCarlo caught up with the show's director to learn more.
