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Spacing Montreal is pleased to host a bi-weekly column exploring Montreal’s literary landscape, written by Gregory McCormick, Director of English Programming for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

After walking by this non-descript store front on Mont-Royal near Saint-Denis countless times without a second glance, I was surprised to learn that La Binerie<\/em> plays a central role in Yves Beauchemin\u2019s classic 1981 novel Le Matou<\/em>, a seminal and highly influential modern work of Quebec literature. <\/em><\/p>\n

Le Matou\u00a0 tells the story of a young married couple, Florent and Elise Boissonneault, and the way fate can both lift us up and knock us down. The couple take in a neighbourhood kid, Emile, who has an absent and drunk mother, and struggle to offer him a stable home all while taking over the running of La Binerie<\/em>. Meanwhile, the restaurant is growing in popularity and becomes a media darling for its re-introduction to the public of certain traditional Qu\u00e9becois dishes:<\/p>\n

Le lendemain matin, Rosario Gladu publiait dans sa chronique <\/em>L\u2019actualit\u00e9 maintenant l\u2019entrefilet suivant\u00a0:<\/em><\/p>\n

Parmi les restaurants chez qui j\u2019ai l\u2019habitude d\u2019aller r\u00e9parer mes forces, il en est un sans pareil \u00e0 tous les autres. Je d\u00e9sire parler de <\/em>La Binerie, rue Mont-Royal. Florent Boissoneault, son sympathique propri\u00e9taire, est un gars vraiment bien correct, pour employer une expression du territoire. Depuis quelques semaines, il s\u2019est fait un jeune ami du nom de Monsieur \u00c9mile, six ans, qui mange \u00e0 cet endroit sans avoir \u00e0 d\u00e9bourser la moindre d\u00e9pense.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 \u00c7a n\u2019est pas donn\u00e9 \u00e0 tout le monde d\u2019avoir des parents riches, m\u2019a dit le chic propri\u00e9taire Boissoneault. \u00a0Je fais ma part pour une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 juste.<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n

Tout ceci pour vous dire que les mets de <\/em> La Binerie constituent une v\u00e9ritable aventure gastrique pour le gourmet, le tout termin\u00e9 par une facture des plus raisonnables.<\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout the work, a cat named D\u00e9jeuner <\/em>provides a link between the exotic and dubious foreigner, the Montreal street kid (already a drunk at age 6), and the upstanding if slightly befuddled young couple.<\/p>\n

This is one of the joys of living in a city and experiencing its very streets and even store fronts coming alive through its art. Now everytime I walk by this previously unremarkable row of shops, I think about this book, about Florent, about the tragic and comic Emile and the Matou<\/em>, a scraggly street cat called Breakfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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