The novel was well acclaimed, being nominated for the Governor Generals Award for French-language fiction in 1984 and being one of the selected novels in the 2005. It was originally published in French in 1984, and was translated into English in 1988. For instance, some post-modernist critics' privilege, formalism, and/ or ambivalence might blind them to the post/ colonial historical roots or influences of these literary texts' practices while some postcolonialist critics may object to the juxtaposition of novels set in Sri Lanka, Quebec, and the United States as diluting the coherence of what constitutes the post/ colonial politically and in literature. The novel Volkswagen Blues is a novel that was written by Jacques Poulin. Given the current Eurocentric biased theoretical climate and some post/ colonial resistances to it, the novels' plots and their 'uncentred, pluralistic, and multifarious'3 content might be considered as either post-modernist or post/ colonial at the expense of some kind of critical compromise. None of them find what they initially anticipated and resolutions are more difficult than imagined. In Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Gail Scott's Heroine protagonists, frequently doubling as narrators, set out on quests to discover places, people, histories, and personas which might provide a sense of belonging, strength, and psychic peace. Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin (1988) Original French title: Volkswagen Blues.
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