Gil Courtemanche
Born
in Montréal, Canada
August 18, 1943
Died
August 19, 2011
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
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2000
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59 editions
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A Good Death
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2005
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15 editions
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Je ne veux pas mourir seul
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2010
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7 editions
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Le monde, le lézard et moi
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2010
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9 editions
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Le camp des justes
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2011
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5 editions
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Douces colères: journal
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1999
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2 editions
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Seconde révolution tranquille
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2003
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Un lézard au Congo
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2010
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3 editions
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Québec
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Dites-Moi Que Je Reve
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“Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.”
― A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
― A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
“You see, each country has a colour, a smell, and also a contagious sickness. In my country the sickness is complacency. In France it's arrogance, and in the United States it's ignorance."
"What about Rwanda?"
"Easy power and impunity. Here, there's total disorder. To someone who has a little money or powere, everything that seems forbidden elsewhere looks permissible and possible. All it takes is to dare it. Someone who's simply a liar in my country can be a fraud artist here, and the fraud artist gets to be a big-time thief. Chaos and most of all poverty give him powers he wouldn't have elsewhere.”
― A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
"What about Rwanda?"
"Easy power and impunity. Here, there's total disorder. To someone who has a little money or powere, everything that seems forbidden elsewhere looks permissible and possible. All it takes is to dare it. Someone who's simply a liar in my country can be a fraud artist here, and the fraud artist gets to be a big-time thief. Chaos and most of all poverty give him powers he wouldn't have elsewhere.”
― A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
“What is a country for someone who is neither a soldier nor a rabid patriot? A place of subtle affinities, an implicit understanding between the land and the foot that treads it. A familiarity, an agreement, a secret sharing with the colours and smells of it. The impression that the wind is with us and is sometimes carrying us. A renunciation that does not imply acceptance of the idiocy and inhumanity that the country nurtures.”
― A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
― A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
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