The Ascent of the Artist in Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley (1952) by André Dodeman

“…With his first novel, The Mountain and the Valley (1952), Canadian writer Ernest Buckler chose to stay true to the longstanding tradition of the Künstlerroman, best illustrated by one of the greatest modernist writers of the twentieth century, James Joyce and his A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). …”
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L’ascension de l’artiste dans The Mountain and the Valley (1952) d’Ernest Buckler by André Dodeman

“…With his first novel, The Mountain and the Valley (1952), Canadian writer Ernest Buckler chose to stay true to the longstanding tradition of the Künstlerroman, best illustrated by one of the greatest modernist writers of the twentieth century, James Joyce and his A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). …”
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A very large soul: selected letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian writers A very large soul: selected letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian writers by John J. O'Connor

“…“This will be a brief letter, as I have a horrifying stack of business letters to catch up on,” wrote Margaret Laurence
 to her friend and fellow novelist Gabrielle Roy in 1978, echoing an earlier lament to her epistolary friend Ernest Buckler about the need to “keep pace with the ghastly flow of business correspondence.” …”
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