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Matt Cohen fonds. Eighth accrual. -- 1983-1990. 2 m
Box 79
Files 1-2 The Spanish Doctor. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,
1983. Photocopy of ts. entitled ``The Jewish Doctor''. 416 pp. + prelims.
Files 3-4 Living on Water. Markham, Ont.; New York: Viking, 1988.
2 copies of ts., one a photocopy of ts. marked up in pencil by an editor,
and the other unmarked consisting of photocopied and original ts. dated
``Feb 15 (?)/88''. Each 198 pp. + prelims.
Box 79 files (17 files), Box 80 (23 files), Box 81
(19 files), and Box 82 (17 files)
Emotional Arithmetic. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990.
The earliest drafts, the first dated October 1987, are entitled ``The
Man Inside'' or ``The Gravity of Love''. Drafts include: October-December
1987, spring 1988 (first draft), fall 1988, February 1989, April 1989,
September 1989, October 1989, February 1990 (draft F), March 22 1990,
spring 1990 (final ts.), edited ts., and May 9 1990 (galleys).
Box 83
Files 1-14 Freud: The Paris Notebooks. Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Press,
1991.
Files include: ``The Eiffel Tower in Three Parts'' (photocopy of excerpt
from a book); tss. entitled ``Throwing Blood'' or ``Freud il Dottore''
and ``Mostly Madame Larousse'' (February 22, 1987); edited marked-up ts.;
page proofs; correspondence and contract with Quarry Press (Cheryl Sutherland),
1990-91; correspondence and contract with XYZ Editeur, 1989, re French
edition Freud a Paris (1990); ts. of ``Autour de Richard et d'Elizabeth'',
116 pp. (includes ``Surtout Madame Larousse'', ``Freud, il dottore'',
and ``Vivre sur l'eau'').
Files 15-31 Reviews of books written by Cohen.
file 15 Yves Beauchemin. Juliette Pomerleau. 2 tss., 4 pp., and
5 pp. with holograph corrections, plus press kit from the publisher. 1989.
file 16 Réjean Beaudoin. Naissance d'une littérature.
Ms., 3 pp. Ts. (faxed to Cohen from the Toronto Star), 5 pp. (some
pages missing), plus newsclipping from the Toronto Star, Saturday
Magazine, 27 January 1990.
file 17 Nina Berbova. The Accompanist and The Revolt. 2
tss., 3 pp. with holograph corrections, and 4 pp. 1989? (published in
the Toronto Star, Saturday Magazine).
file 18 Leonid Borodin. The Third Truth. Ts., 4 pp., with fax letter
to Toronto Star, Saturday Magazine, 16 June 1989.
file 19 Annie Cohen-Solal. Sartre: A Life. and Ronald Hayman. Writing
Against. Photocopy of ts., 4 pp., plus letter to the Ottawa Citizen
(Bert Heward), 18 July 1987.
file 20 D.M. Fraser. Collected Works, vol. 1: Prelude. Ts.,
5 pp., and combination of ts. and ms., 8 pp., with fax letter to Doug
Fetherling of the Kingston Whig-Standard, 22 September 1988, and
newsclipping from Kingston Whig-Standard Magazine.
file 21 Rick Hillis. Limbo River. Ts., 3 pp., 1991.
file 22 R.B. Kitaj. First Diasporist Manifesto. Combination of
ts. and ms., 4 pp., with letter from Thames and Hudson Ltd. (Angela Prysor-Jones),
28 July 1989, and biographical information on Kitaj.
file 23 Milan Kundera. L'immortalité. 2 tss., both 4 pp.,
one with holograph corrections, with nesclipping and fax letter, 9 March
1990, to Toronto Star, Saturday Magazine.
file 24 Gabriel Garcia Marquez. General in His Labyrinth. 2 tss.,
4 pp. and 5 pp., the latter with holograph additions, plus fax letter
to Toronto Star, Saturday Magazine, 19 October 1990.
file 25 William McIlvanney. The Walking Wounded. 3 tss., 3 pp.,
3 pp., 4 pp., and 1 pp. of ms., with fax letter to Toronto Star,
Saturday Magazine, 31 March 1989.
file 26 Patrick Modiano. Vestiare de l'enfance. Ms., 5 pp., and
ts., 4 pp. August 1989 (published in the Toronto Star).
file 27 Leo Perutz-Collins. The Marquis of Bolibar. Ms., 2 pp.;
and 2 tss., one with holograph alterations. With fax letter to Toronto
Star, Saturday Magazine, 5 June 1989.
file 28 José Revueltas. Human Mourning. 2 tss., 5 pp. and
4 pp., the latter with holograph additions. With newsclippping from the
Toronto Star, Saturday Magazine, 17 February 1990, cover
of the book, and fax letter to the Toronto Star.
file 29 Salman Rushdie. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Ts., 4 pp.
With biographical information on Rushdie and fax letter to Toronto
Star, 10 December 1990.
file 30 William Trevor. Family Sins and Other Stories. Ts., 4 pp.,
plus fax letter to Toronto Star, 29 June 1990.
file 31 William Trevor. The Silence in the Garden. Ts., 5 pp.,
with holograph additions; 3 pp. of notes. With biographical Information
on Trevor and fax letter to Susan Walker (Toronto Star), 21 October
1988.
file 32 Obituary of Marian Engel. Ms., 3 pp., plus 1 p. of notes. Read
on the CBC Sunday Morning, [1985?].
file 33 "The Eiffel Tower in Three Parts". Ms., 4 pp., and 1 page numbered
6. 5 tss., 4 pp., 5 pp. with holograph additions, 4 pp., 3 pp., and 8
pp. (repeating pages of part 3). Published in The Oxford Book of Canadian
Short Stories in English, selected by Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver
(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986).
file 34 "Quebec Article". Ts., 9 pp., with fax letter to Toronto Star,
Saturday Magazine (Doris Giller), 24 November 1988.
file 35 "Literary Nationalism in English Canada: Bogus or Magus". 3 tss.
with varying titles, 8 pp., 4 pp., 8 pp. (with insert pages in ms.). Ms.,
2 pp. Issue of the American Book Review and exchange of letters
between Cohen and August ?, August-October 1987.
file 36 "Author and Critic: or -- Literary Encounters of the Third Kind:
An Inconclusive Play in Seven Parts". Ms., 10 pp. 3 tss., 10 pp., 10 pp.,
and 3 pp., each with holograph alterations. Title of articles varies.
Published in Books in Canada, 1988.
file 37 Article on George Grant. Ms., 2 pp. Ts., 5 pp., with a few insert
pages and notes. With fax letter to Toronto Star (Susan Walker),
7 October 1988. Also in the file is an issue of Radio Canada (January
1986) containing Cohen's piece, "The Thinker".
file 38 Commentary on the Iraq War. 2 tss., both 4 pp. with holograph
alterations. Prepared for CBC Radio, Sunday Morning programme, January
1991. With post card from CBC Radio (Grazyna Krupa) and letter from Ores
Slepokura, 23 Janauary 1991.
file 39 "The Salon du Livre: Montreal, fall 1990". 5 ts., 6 pp., 2 pp.,
4 pp., 2 pp., 6 pp. Ms. notes, 4 pp. With articles on QSPELL and the french-language
question. November 1990.
file 40 "Callaghan, MacLennan & Grove". 7 tss., 9 pp., 8 pp., , 9
pp., 11 pp., , 6 pp., , 5 pp., and 4 pp. Some tss. with insertions and
holograph alterations. Proofs, 11 pp. Prepared for Saturday Night
magazine, 18 January 1991.
file 41 Book promotion tour in England. Correspondence with the Writers'
Union of Canada, D.R. Lamont, Angela Smith, Department of External Affairs,
Canada House, Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1988-89.
file 42 Toronto Arts Council, correspondence and minutes, 1988-90.
Box 84 Translations by Cohen.
file 1-10 Georges-Hebert. Overtime: The Legend of Guy Lafleur.
Markham, Ont.: Viking, 1990. Files include: correspondence with Penguin
Books Canada Limited, 1990; newsclippings related to the French edition,
Guy Lafleur, l'ombre et la lumiere. Montreal: Les Editions Art
Global and Libre Expression, 1990; galleys of the French edition, pp.
47-251; partial ts. of the French text, 227 pp.; and the ts. of Cohen's
translation, 636 pp.
file 11 issue of The Last Issue, autumn 1987, containing Cohen's
translation of Jean-Yves Soucy's "The Red Boots"; with letter from Penguin
Books Canada Limited (Catherine Yolles), 19 October 1987.
file 12-16 Gaetan Brulotte. The Secret Voice: Stories. Erin, Ont.:
Porcupine's Quill, 1990. Files include: two drafts of the translation,
ms. and ts. combination, irregular pagination, approximately 200 pp. in
all; several sets of galleys, with various corrections, some by external
readers; correspondence with Brulotte, Porcupine's Quill (Tim Inkster),
The Canada Council; contract with Porcupine's Quill and contract between
Penguin Books Canada Limited and Porcupine's Quill re permission to reprint
Cohen's translation , "The Elevated Messenger"; biographical information
on Brulotte; books, Le surveillant. Montreal: Les Editions Lemeac
Inc., 1986 and Ce nous qui tient. Montreal: Les Editions Lemeac,
1988.
Box 85 Reviews. Most of the reviews are of Emotional Arithmetic.
file 1 Edited with Wayne Grady, Intimate Strangers: New Stories from
Quebec. Markham, Ont.: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1986.
file 2 Cafe Le Dog. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983.
file 3 The Spanish Doctor. Toronto: McCelland and Stewart, 1983.
file 4 Living on Water. Markham, Ont.: Penguin Books Canada Limited,
1988.
file 5 Nadine. Markham, Ont.: Viking, 1986.
file 6 Gaetan Brulotte. The Secret Voice: Stories. Erin, Ont.:
Porcupine's Quill, 1990.
file 7 Freud: The Paris Notebooks. Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Press,
1991.
file 8 Emotional Arithmetic. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys,
1990.
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