La Relève

…friend Paul Beaulieu, he founded La Relève (later called La Nouvelle Relève, “The New Relief”), a nationalist review of art, literature, and philosophy (it ceased publication in 1948). In 1940 he and Claude Hurtubise established the publishing house Éditions de l’Arbre. Over the years, Charbonneau worked as a journalist for…

…important French Canadian literary journal La Relève (1934; “The Relief”). His intense and introspective verse, filled with images of death and despair, set him apart from the prevailing regionalism of Canadian literature and strongly influenced the poets who followed.