Cities on paper. Emily Dikinson's life. Fortier D.

American poetess Emily Dikinson is still a mystery. She was born in 1830 and died 55 years later in the same house; I have never been married and had no children; wrote more than a thousand poems, from which she published less than a dozen during her lifetime; Amherst almost did not leave her hometown.

“Cities on paper” is a bright literary portrait of a writer who was able to create entire worlds without leaving her own garden. Weaving biographical information with his own fantasies, Dominic Fortier created a deep and subtle story of the freedom of imagination and the nature of creativity, about the places in which we live and which live inside us. Quebec in 1972, defended the dissertation in French literature at the University of McGill, worked in various publishers; The author of the five novels. The laureate of the French Prize GENS de Mer (sailors Award) and the Governor General, the highest literary award of Canada. The book "Cities on Paper" was awarded the prestigious Renodo Prize for the Essay (2020).