Beauty and Sadness
Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing portrait of himself. At the same time, Beauty and Sadness is an autobiography. Alexis’s intent is to give a sense of what it is like to live ecstatically through literature — what it is like to read Tolstoy and feel that The Death of Ivan Ilych, for instance, is connected to the land of his birth, Trinidad, as intimately as it is to his home, Canada.
André Alexis is a Trinidadian-Canadian author and playwright.
Other publications from this author include:
- The Night Piece: Collected Stories (2020)
- Days by Moonlight (2019)
- The Hidden Keys (2016)
- Fifteen Dogs (2015)
- Pastoral (2014)
- Asylum (2008)
- Lambton Kent (1999)
- Childhood (1998)
- Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994)