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St. Urbain's Horseman is the seventh novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler . It was first published in 1971 by McClelland & Stewart . It is one of Richler's most ambitious novels and won the prestigious Governor General's Award for 1971.
Plot and setting
The novel is set in London and Montreal during the late 1960s. The protagonist, Jake Hersh, first appeared in Richler's fourth novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz , as a schoolmate of the title character. Now, almost twenty years later, Hersh is a moderately successful film director, married with three children, who has become embroiled in a sordid sex scandal. With his world crumbling around him, Jake continues to be obsessed with the mystery of his long-lost cousin and idol Joey, an adventurer, Nazi-hunter and Spanish Civil War veteran.
Translations
This novel has been translated:
1930s 1940s
Ringuet , Thirty Acres (1940)
Alan Sullivan , Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
G. Herbert Sallans , Little Man (1942)
Thomas Head Raddall , The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
Gwethalyn Graham , Earth and High Heaven (1944)
Hugh MacLennan , Two Solitudes (1945)
Winifred Bambrick , Continental Revue (1946)
Gabrielle Roy , The Tin Flute (1947)
Hugh MacLennan , The Precipice (1948)
Philip Child , Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s
Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander (1950)
Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951)
David Walker , The Pillar (1952)
David Walker , Digby (1953)
Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954)
Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955)
Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956)
Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches (1957)
Colin McDougall , Execution (1958)
Hugh MacLennan , The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
1960s 1970s
Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970)
Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
Robertson Davies , The Manticore (1972)
Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
Margaret Laurence , The Diviners (1974)
Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
Marian Engel , Bear (1976)
Timothy Findley , The Wars (1977)
Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s
George Bowering , Burning Water (1980)
Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending (1982)
Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Alice Munro , The Progress of Love (1986)
M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987)
David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street (1988)
Paul Quarrington , Whale Music (1989)
1990s
Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints (1990)
Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey (1991)
Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient (1992)
Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries (1993)
Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy (1996)
Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter (1997)
Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998)
Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s
Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost (2000)
Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan (2001)
Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
Douglas Glover , Elle (2003)
Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness (2004)
David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams (2006)
Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero (2007)
Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008)
Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s
Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010)
Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers (2011)
Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012)
Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries (2013)
Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle (2014)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
Sarah Henstra , The Red Word (2018)
Joan Thomas , Five Wives (2019)
2020s