Works Éric McComber

Le Mauvais Siècle (Essay)
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Here is the untold story of the 20th century. The very same groups of bankers financed Stalin's stolen revolution, Hitler's rise to power, and the allied war efforts of the two world wars. Order out chaos was their motto. Little known yet highly documented and established facts about the great leaders of the era, never put side by side before, make for a revealing and surprising new picture of what really happened, and why. The book is built around a series of uncompromising biographies, shedding the gloss of hagiographic wax that usually surrounds our notions of these characters. Warburg, Morgan, Rockefeller, Harriman, Bush, Churchill, one by one the pieces of a stunning and revealing puzzle are added to the picture.

Sans connaissance (Éditions Autrement, 2007)
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Montreal–North, a disadvantaged suburban neighbourhood, the 1970s. A nurse turned simple-minded psychotherapist for a mother, a defrocked priest for a father, an accident-prone adopted brother. And Émile Duncan, who makes a very rapid rite of passage into violence and into the kind of trouble his parents want to avoid at all costs. Bloody games, street brawls and the small-scale saga of teenage gangs become acts of defiance. Comprehensive school and technical college follow, setting new limits to put to the test: fooling about, rebelliousness and a fixation about sex. The need for ever more elusive independence pushes Émile to quit college, chasing after dreams of a career in artwork, and to get into a relationship or pal up with others in league against the rest of the world. On the way he learns the hard way in an increasingly tragicomic world of deceit and betrayal … The rebellion goes on, blatantly mediocre, as he restlessly wanders around with a rock band. Finally, the mind-numbing pursuit of pleasure, sex and alcohol “until he can’t even make out the ground under him”, and love hovering shakily as a slim hope of pulling through... A shaky progress towards adulthood, transformed by powerful, meaty, amazingly inventive writing.

Antarctique (Éditions Triptyque, 2002)

"Two stories intertwine in this novel, one about a band on tour in Quebec, the other about a future warrior, in a land torn by a war comparable to the explosive mix of territorial claims, ancestral nationalisms and fascisms that ravaged the Balkans." (Michel Vézina, La Une, Montréal)

"Funny, moving, tender, and shocking all in one (sensitive souls are warned), this book will leave no one indifferent." (Annick Charrette, Le Libraire, Montreal)