1. On this day of Canada triumphant, a few thoughts on Mavis Gallant (1922-2014), one of our greatest writers.
6. While Canada is rightly honored to be able to claim Gallant as one of our own, she was really a European writers.
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7. False to say Europeans discovered America but arguably true that North Americans discovered Europe: Henry James, G. Stein, Gallant.
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8. Europeans see each other through haze of nationalism; it took North Americans to see Europe as a coherent cultural entity.
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