Background
Adrien Thério was born on August 15, 1925, in Saint-Modeste, Quebec, Canada. He was a son of Charles-Eugene Theriault, a farmer, and Eva Theriault (maiden name Bouchard).
75 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
The University of Ottawa where Adrien Therio received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950.
2325 Rue de l'Université, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Université Laval (Laval University) where Adrien Therio earned a Master of Arts degree in 1951 and a Doctor of Philosophy in French literature in 1953.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Harvard University where Adrien Therio studied from 1953 to 1954.
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
The University of Notre Dame where Adrien Therio obtained a Master of Arts degree in political science in 1959.
27 King's College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S, Canada
The University of Toronto which Adrien Therio attended from 1959 to 1960.
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Adrien Thério was born on August 15, 1925, in Saint-Modeste, Quebec, Canada. He was a son of Charles-Eugene Theriault, a farmer, and Eva Theriault (maiden name Bouchard).
Adrien Thério received a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Ottawa in 1950. It was followed by a Master of Arts from Laval University a year later. In 1953, Thério completed a doctorate in French literature with a thesis on a journalist Jules Fournier.
The fellowship he received from the Rockefeller Foundation allowed him to pursue his studies at Harvard University which he attended from 1953 to 1954. Five years later, Thério obtained a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Later, from 1959 to 1960, Adrien Thério attended the University of Toronto as well.
The start of Adrien Thério’s career can be counted from the teaching position he occupied at Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky from 1954 to 1956. Then, he taught at the University of Notre Dame for three years. From 1959 to 1960, he was a faculty member at the University of Toronto as well. The experience he received on these posts influenced one of his first publications, a 1960 novel ‘La Soif et le mirage’ (The Thirst and the Mirage).
In the same year that the volume saw print, Thério joined the professor’s staff of the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario where he served as a professor for the nine following years. Then, the author moved to the University of Ottawa where he taught French Literature till 1989.
Devoting much of his time to academics, Adrien Thério didn’t drop his writing activity. In 1961, he founded a literary review Livres et Auteurs Québécois (Quebec Books and Authors) and headed it till 1973.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Thério worked on his first play, though ‘Les Renegats’ (The Renegades) wasn’t published until 1964. It portrayed Quebec’s society right before what was known as “the Quiet Revolution”, a 1960s transformation of Quebec from a mostly rural to an increasingly urban society. Thério revisited the world of academia again in his 1970 novel, ‘Un Paien chez les pingouins’ (A Pagan Among the Pingouins). The book consists of six letters and a post-script, written by the protagonist, Claude. The letters tell of his life as a young professor teaching at a small Canadian university.
The book was followed by Thério’s 1973 effort, ‘Les Fous d'amour’ (The Insane Lovers). The readers were again presented with a narrator named Claude, Brother Claude, inhabitant of a monastery in contemporary Quebec. Rather than epistolary, like its predecessor, the volume took the form of many diary entries.
A year later, Thério’s ‘La Colere du pere’ (The Father’s Rage) became available to French-Canadian readers. This book was set in a small, overwhelmingly Catholic community in rural Quebec, and followed the disturbances caused when a Protestant minister came to live and preach there.
Two years after the publication, Adrien Thério established another Quebec’s better-known literary review, Lettres Québécoises (Letters from Quebec).
Thério also edited anthologies of French Canadian stories and continued to write plays. In his second play, 1979’s ‘Le Roi d'Aragon’ (The King of Aragon), the author returned to the monastical atmosphere of ‘Les Fous d’amour’.
Other notable works by Adrien Thério include ‘La Tete en fete et autres histoires étranges’ (Merry in the Head and Other Strange Stories), a collection of fantasy stories, and a novel is ‘Marie-Eve! Marie-Eve!’
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1960Adrien Thério was a member of Québec Union of Writers and of the Royal Society of Canada.