· Marian Engel was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Her most famous, and controversial, novel was Bear, a story of erotic love between a . I purchased and reviewed an award-winning novel about a woman who has a sexual affair with a literal bear. This is how I ended up feeling about my choices. C. Bear – a novel by the Canadian writer Marian Engel, first published in , the events of which I’ve retold here – is my secret book. But with the arrival of a new UK edition (Daunt Books) joining existing Canadian (McClelland Stewart) and US (David R. Godine) editions, it’s not going to be secret for much longer, and I don’t know.
― Marian Engel, Bear. tags: crematie, edward-john-trelawny, lord-byron, percy-shelley. 0 likes. Like "The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches." ― Marian Engel. Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in It won the Governor General's Literary Award the same year. It is Engel's fifth novel, and her most famous. The story tells of a lonely librarian in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear. First published in and reputedly the most controversial Canadian novel of all time, Engel's story of a young librarian who embarks on a sexual and spiritual relationship with a bear brims with passion, folklore and taboo. 'A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing.
Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-discovery, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature through her bizarre and healing relationship with the bear. A daring and compelling novel, Marian Engel?s Bear won the Governor General?s Award for --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Bear is essentially a (transforming) summer-in-the-life novel. Canadian librarian Lou works at the Historical Institute, and when the legal wranglings about the disposition of an estate are finally over she is charged with assessing what exactly the Institute has inherited, and how it might be utilized. This novel by award-winning author Marian Engel works within the logic of a fever dream as the young woman comes to an even greater, and unexpected, understanding of herself. Bear was first.
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