Exiguity

``This readable translation by Lin Burman makes available to English-language readers a novel and contemporary reflective approach to the state of some literatures in the world today....Parã© succeeds in confronting the reader with a stimulating apologia for the voices from the edge....This book can be read and appreciated by advanced undergraduate and postgraduate research students from any literary discipline. It will be of particular interest to those studying the minority cultures of Canada and to those with an interest in literature beyond the beaten path of major languages....This is a radical book, both in the idea that mass cultural movements can produce the opposite effect and in the manner in which profound reflections are casually made. In the age of the sound-byte and the domination of the visual it is reassuring that Parã© not only sees a future for the writers of smaller languages but predicates the maintenance of the intellectual spirit on their continuing survival and development.'' -- Pãidraig O Gormaile, University of Galway, Ireland, Canadian Ethnic Studies