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On the set of Barney's Version, with Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Minnie Driver, and the ghost of Mordecai Richler.

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It’s 10:30 in the morning and I’m standing across the room from Florence Richler, the widow of Mordechai Richler, once Canada’s most famous novelist. She is 83 – her eyes are a glassy blue, and almost completely blind. Perched on the edge of a mahogany desk in the den is a picture of Mordecai in a simple frame. She catches me staring at it and picks it up very gently, running her fingers across his face. This, she says, accompanies her wherever she goes.

The picture was taken at the country home in the Eastern Townships where Richler did most of his writing from 1974 – when they bought it – until he died in 2001. Like so many authors, he required undisturbed silence as he wrote.

One morning, Florence caught sight of Mordecai on the balcony just outside the kitchen, deeply absorbed in what was then the manuscript of Barney’s Version, his last, great novel. It was clear, from his furrowed brow and hunched posture, that there was no summoning him. Instead, Florence picked up a nearby camera, crept into position, and took a picture of her husband in what

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Mordecai Richler

Canadian writer (1931–2001)

Mordecai RichlerCC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were nominated for the Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy.

Biography

Early life and education

The son of Lily (née Rosenberg) and Moses Isaac Richler,^[1] a scrap metal dealer, Richler was born on January 27, 1931, in Montreal, Quebec,^[2]^[3] and raised on St. Urbain Street in that city's Mile End area. He was fluent in English, French and Yiddish, and graduated from Baron Byng High School. Richler enro

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Mordecai: The Life and Times

By Charles Foran

Knopf Canada, 720 pages, $40

Among Canada’s writers, no one had a more varied and more public life than Mordecai Richler, “that cantankerous embryo, boy genius” as one dissenter from his university journalism called him.

As a puffed-up 19-year-old in Montreal, Richler asserted that he was going to be a writer, long before his output, including such classics as The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain’s Horseman, justified such a claim.

But he packed his bags for Paris, then Ibiza, and scratched out two novels before he was 22. All this while chasing women, engaging in drinking bouts with Spanish fishermen, and chatting up prospective publishers.

Though Richler died in 2001 at the age of 70, his influence is still being felt. Recently, a movie of his final novel, Barney&