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Mordecai Richler, CC war ein kanadischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor und Essayist englischer Sprache. Zu Lebzeiten gehörte er zu den bekanntesten kanadischen Schriftstellern weltweit. In Kanada selbst war er darüber hinaus durch seine Äußerungen zur kanadischen Politik eine nicht unumstrittene Figur des öffentlichen Lebens.

Richler war mehrfach für die kanadischen Literaturpreise Scotiabank Giller-Preis und den Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize nominiert. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Januar 1931 – 3. Juli 2001   •   Andere Namen مردکای ریچلر, モルデカイ・リッチラー
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“The chief rabbi of the underworld, that's me.”

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Mordecai Richler buch The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)

“This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.”

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Mordecai Richler buch The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)

“So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Lévesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place.”

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Reported in Donald Smith, D'une nation à l'autre: des deux solitudes à la cohabitation (Montreal: Éditions Alain Stanké, 1997), p. 61.
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“Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. French-Canadians consumed by self-pity; the descendants of Scots who fled the Duke of Cumberland; Irish, the famine; and Jews, the Black Hundreds. Then there are the peasants from Ukraine, Poland, Italy and Greece, convenient to grow wheat and dig out the ore and swing the hammers and run the restaurants, but otherwise to be kept in their place. Most of us are huddled tight to the border, looking into the candy store window, scared of the Americans on one side and of the bush on the other.”

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Reported in Mark Steyn, "Mordecai Richler, 1931-2001", New Criterion (September 2001), Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 123–128.
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“I was a voracious reader, but you would be mistaken if you took that as evidence of my quality.”

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Mordecai Richler buch Barney's Version

Barney's Version (1997)

“My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.”

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Reported in Donald Smith, D'une nation à l'autre: des deux solitudes à la cohabitation (Montreal: Éditions Alain Stanké, 1997), p. 61.
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