A girl is hitchhiking on the side of a deserted road on the Ile d’Orléans, in Quebec. A car stops. The driver, Marc-André Nadeau, is out for a drive in search of ideas for a novel about his ancestors. As the hours go by, the girl becomes more and more important in Marc-André’s life, while his novel becomes less and less important, to the extent that he wonders whether he must choose between them. This is a surprising road novel where the inner progress of the characters is completely unrelated to the distance covered. Between the Ile d’Orléans and a bar on the Rue Saint-Jean, in Quebec City, the lives of both of the central characters in this novel will be transformed even more so than they would have ever thought.
Ce que la presse en dit
« Table rase est tout en contrastes: culture et nature, maturité et
jeunesse, désabusement et idéalisme, convention et invention ou
enracinement et évasion. ***½ »
Réginald Martel, La Presse
« Servi par [...] une précision descriptive, un sens du dialogue et de
la narration, Table rase de Louis Lefebvre gagne à être lu. »
Suzanne
Giguère, Le Devoir