She was the first chair of the Writer’s Union of Canada (1973–74) and helped found the Public Lending Right Commission. A pesar del impacto que causó su publicación, Oso se alzó con el Governor General’s Literary Award en 1976 y está considerada una de las mejores (y más controvertidas) novelas de la literatura canadiense.Ĭanadian novelist, short-story and children's fiction writer, Marian Engel was a passionate activist for the national and international writer’s cause. Será entonces cuando emprenda un camino de autodescubrimiento. Gradualmente, Lou se va convenciendo de que el oso es el compañero perfecto, que colma todas sus expectativas. Una relación íntima, inquietante y nada ambigua. Cuando se da cuenta de que este es el único que puede proporcionarle algo de compañía, surgirá entre ellos una extraña relación. Ansiosa por reconstruir la curiosa historia de la casa, pronto descubre que la isla tiene otro habitante: un oso. La joven e introvertida Lou abandona su trabajo como bibliotecaria cuando se le encarga hacer inventario de los libros de una mansión victoriana situada en una remota isla canadiense, propiedad de un enigmático coronel, ya fallecido.
Includes a reading group guide.Publicada en 1976 y adorada por Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood o Alice Munro, Oso es una novela delicadísima y calculadamente transgresora, una auténtica parábola de la vuelta a la naturaleza. As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. What she discovers will change her life forever. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. Lou’s imagination is soon overtaken by the island’s past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Eager to investigate the estate’s curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belonged to an eccentric nineteenth-century colonel. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute.
The winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Marian Engel’s most famous – and most controversial – novel tells the unforgettable story of a woman transformed by a primal, erotic relationship.
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