Boycottage of the United States | Michel Tremblay sells his house in Florida

After 34 winters. Furthermore, 34 spring in the sun, Michel Tremblay decided this week to sell his house in Florida. However, A “heartbreaking”, “corneal” decision, but which is the right one, believes the famous snowbird Quebecer. However, Like other Canadian citizens, the author no longer wishes to live in the country of Donald Trump.

In a Facebook publication on July 13. Therefore, Michel Tremblay wrote that one of the great dilemmas of his life was to sell, or not, his house in Key West. However, “On the one hand 34 years of writing. For example, Twelve theater shots has Paris in boycottage united states | michel bulk [qui sera publié à l’automne]the sun, friendship, sea, greenery; On the other, anxiety, disgust and, no doubt, duty before injustice and pure cruelty. Consequently, »»

A few days later, he finally put a sign for sale in front of his Floridian house. Similarly, And shot the page on a huge (and happy) chapter of his life. Meanwhile, After putting his Facebook friends at the perfume of his decision. Similarly, last Wednesday, Tremblay received a hundred comments to congratulate him, support him or even suggest other hot countries where to spend his winters …

“It’s heartbreaking, it’s a dreadful mourning, but it’s the right decision,” says Tremblay in an interview with The press.

From Ernest Hemingway to Tennessee Williams via Marie-Claire Blais. Therefore, Key West has long been a haven of inspiration for artists from everywhere, including several from the LGBTQ community. However, It was thanks to Marie-Claire Blais if Michel Tremblay discovered the place, 35 years ago. Our colleague Chantal Guy also reported boycottage united states | michel in 2011 on writers who take refuge in Key West to create their works.

The author of Sisters-in-law used to get up every morning saying to his guests, before getting to work: “ Another fucking beautiful day ! ». Now. he could no longer live in peace in his golden refuge, filled with memories, as if nothing was going outside his home …

The world is changing. This island located in the Gulf of Mexico. 145 kilometers boycottage united states | michel from the coasts of Cuba, attracts less the young artists and the marginals of the country. “The United States has been founded by a gang of bandits in violence and racism. And they are back to power. In recent months, I felt more and more worried. As if I lived in Franco’s Spain; Or Chile de Pinochet! », Illustrates the novelist of Exploded heart.

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Other Quebecers leave the United States

Tremblay is not a unique case. Other Quebec artists have done like him (or think of doing it soon). because their conscience is in opposition to the decisions and decrees of the Trump administration.

In April, the actor and director René Richard Cyr sold his condo in Florida, north of Fort Lauderdale. “My boyfriend and I don’t regret a second. We are released, “he said to The press. “The current social and political climate is too violent in the United States. Since December, we have felt hostility towards foreigners, homophobia, even if we did not live a republican county and Maga. »»

The caricaturist of The pressSerge Chapleau, also thinks of selling his property in Florida, because of the American political situation. “But not right away, it’s not time to sell. I am told that the market is not good for sellers. Maybe in six months … “

To those who say that Trump is not eternal. that he will no longer be president in four years, René Richard Cyr replies: “Trump is not the disease, but the symptom of a very sick society. »»

Michel Tremblay abounds in the same direction. For him, the United States is over. “I will no longer cross the borders of my lifetime”, swears the author who has just been 83 years old.

And when the cold and the snow will remind him of his boycottage united states | michel lost corner of paradise … Will Tremblay go to warm up to other suns? “I don’t know what I will do yet next winter. I will start by selling my house. I don’t have the soul of an explorer. Additionally, I may praise something in Martinique, in Saint-Martin, in a country where it speaks French … “

“What I loved by Florida is to be able to be elsewhere in gang. My friends from Quebec could easily come and see me in Key West. But I move on to something else, ”says the man renowned for a pig’s head.