"Die eigenwillige und eigentümliche Geschichte eines aufregenden, lehrreichen Scheiterns." - Michael Querbach, Die Zeit.Marian Engel writes with a fine lucidity of mysteries perceived and not glorified." - Jane Miller, Times Literary Supplement. "The novel is a parable, of course, but it persuades through the details of the place and the feelings it inspires.It's imbued with the sexual politics of 1970s second-wave feminism - not to mention issues of colonial plunder, both of bodies and land - but, like all the best so-called "rediscovered" gems, this enchanting, singular book still feels as fresh and exciting today as it surely did nearly half a century ago." - Lucy Scholes, The Telegraph " Bear is too wily and wilful a tale to be didactic, but it is all the richer for Engel's subtle, probing exploration of gender roles and dynamics."Sin lugar a dudas, Oso es una obra maestra de la literatura canadiense, y también de la literatura erótica universal." - Alberto Manguel, El País.(.) What we have here is clean and simple, implicative and sonorous, illuminated by an artist's imaginative power." - Doris Grumbach, The New York Times Book Review (.) It is futile in precis or paraphrase to attempt to capture the persuasive power of Marian Engel's fiction. "(S)pare, wry and altogether extraordinary (.) Odd ? Oh, yes.Engel’s prose turns swiftly from the comic to lyric and back again" - Emily M. Bear is great because of what it manages to do through language in its meagre 115 pages.
"The reason Bear is the greatest Canadian novel of all time is not because I, a 27-year-old woman with a piss poor sense of the boundaries between work and life, found it relatable.Lou leaves the island equipped with what she needs, the breath of kind beasts upon her." - Patricia Lockwood, London Review of Books Yet the essential gift of the fairy tale is retained.
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