A Night of Bohème in Montreal: Music as the force of adventure in "Some Night My Prince Will Come" by Michel Tremblay
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Michel Tremblay's novel relates a young Montrealer's gay nocturnal adventures in January 1960, as he tries to lose his virginity on the pretext of an opera soirée. It is a multiple initiation: first to the opera houses on the other side of the city, then to the night world, to new music, to the gay "milieu" and, finally, to sexual fulfilment. This report aims to analyse the role of music in a narrative that depicts a heterogeneous nocturnal and urban universe: the bourgeois “grande culture”, represented by the world of opera, mixing with the brand-new folk generation of beatnik singers who are beginning to flourish in this key year. As a matter of fact, after the end of the ultraconservative Duplessis regime, a new freedom of thoughts and morals is emerging which will lead to the Révolution Tranquille.
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