Survival

About “Survival”

Described as the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature, this work combines criticism, manifesto, and personal and subversive remarks by Margaret Atwood. She asks what the central preoccupations of Canadian poetry and fiction have been, answering survival and victims, and applies this thesis across twelve chapters discussing writers such as Moodie, MacLennan, Blais, Pratt, Purdy, Newlove, Godfrey, and Gibson.