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Ethel Wilson and Leo McKay : Do Their Roads Meet or Cross Anywhere

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Ethel Wilson and Leo McKay : Do Their Roads Meet or Cross Anywhere

Introduction

The fire of a period prepares the person by planting perennial pangs in him /her , which , could be the potential tool of a writer . It brings out the best of the reflections of whatever essence s /he has gathered . That essence is sometimes called as the authorial voice , or sometimes as

br vision . Vision , coupled with execution , could make time overlapping itself or creating a new time for its observers . It is in this enigma lies the beauty of fiction or novel , where the weave their way towards a resolution or mellow in the horizon after leaving a question or two in the readers ' minds all the while evoking the curiosity among the readers to draw references from another writer 's work , or to ponder over the similarity or contrast between the works of two

That kind of literary curiosity is the genesis of this essay , where two Canadian novelists of two different period have been chosen to track down any similarity or discord between them , after listening to their authorial voices

Ethel Wilson (1888-1980

She published her first novel (Hetty Dorval , 1947 ) while she was at the doorstep of her sixties , after having what can be called as 'self-imposed internship ' in writing , with occasional spurts of publication . Her childhood contained melancholy , and thus the germs of a writer , which might took a longer time to flourish , but , once it bloomed , it settled nothing less than featuring in the mirrors of the readers ' mind much like her own described mountain in her first novel Swamp of Angel was published in 1954 , almost seven years later , and is marked by the explicitness of her quest more than ever

Swamp of Angel , in comparison to Wilson 's earlier works , hints on a philosophical shift from one of classical reference-frame to Christian mythology , which the readers come across in patches , or for that matter when the details of Maggie 's journey after oppression brings in the scope to remember Christ 's painful ordeal , or when the name Three Loon Lake suggests about Trinity . However , this bend could also be described as a personalized approach to a 'coming of age ' novel with its mythical frame

Leo McKay Jr

The young McKay arrived at the scene in 1995 with his collection of short stories , which made is way up to the Giller Prize shortlist , but thereafter it took a seven-year silence before his debut novel The Twenty-six hit the stands

McKay 's life is also marred by constant struggle and uncertainty and contains somewhat a shadow of his predecessor in the preference of working in isolation or gestating away from public eye . These ideas are drawn from the observation of the biographers of Wilson , or from the open confession of McKay himself

Apart from this similarity of seven-year silence between...