The tragedy of 'Jeune Latour' in Le 'Canadien': Textual and political intrusions

In 1844, Antoine Gerin-Lajoie published a tragedy entitled Le Jeune Latour in Le Canadien, a Quebec city newspaper. Publication of a play in a newspap er, a very rare occurrence, as well as the specific reading code that is in duced by the configuration of the newspaper as an object, will be the main focus of this article. Newspaper reading inevitably brings up the problem o f interference between the multiple discourse that are linked to that media : in this case, a contextualization of the tragedy and a stage-like product ion of information. Out of this reconfiguration of meaning brought on by th e reading of the three numbers in which the tragedy is published emerges a dialectic opposing the necessity to confront to the desire to conciliate.