The Other Side of Dailiness Photography in the Works of Alice Munro, Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Laurence Lorraine Mo York + CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA York, Lorraine Mary, 1958- The other side of dailiness Bibliography: p. Incl udes index. ISBN 1-55022-003-9 (bound). - ISBN 1-55022-002-0 (pbk.). 1. Canadian literature (English) - 20th century History and criticism.* 2. Literature and photography - Canada. I. Title. PS8191.P43Y671988 C813'.54'09 C87-093316-7 PR9192.6.P43Y671988 The Other Side of Da il in ess has been published with the assistance of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Additional grants have been provided by The Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Co ver design and artwork by The Dragon's Eye Press, Toronto. Typeset by ECW Production Services, Oakville. Printed and bound by the University of Toronto Press, Downsview. Published by ECW PRESS, 307 Coxwell Avenue, Toronto, Ont. M4L 3B5 Copyright © ECW PRESS, 1988 + + TABLE OF CONTENTS + mibroduooon "A Message with a Code" 9 C1M1P~eJI' One "The Delicate Moment of Exposure": Alice Munro and Photography 21 C1M1P~eJI' Two ''Vi olent Stillness": Timothy Findley' s Use of Photography 51 C1M1P~eJI' 11huree "The Making and Destroying": The Photographie Image in Miehael Ondaatje' s Works 93 C1M1P~eJI' Fo1!.U' "Today Facing Yesterday": Photography in Margaret Laurence's Works 121 WorbCited 167 mdex 173 + ILLUSTRATIONS + Fig. 1 Diane Arbus, A Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N. Y. (1968) [courtesy The Estate of Diane Arbus] Fig. 2 Walker Evans, Boots, from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) [courtesy The Estate of Walker Evans] Fig. 3 Joseph Devellano, Telephoto (1982) [Art Gallery of Hamilton] Fig. 4 Anonymous, Les abords du crematoire à la liberation en 1945, Dachau Fig. 5 from Running in the Family [by permission of Michael Ondaatje] Fig. 6 What We Think of Married Life, from Running in the Family [by permission of Michael Ondaatje1 + ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + A number of people read this work in its early stages and gave me valuable adviee about its publication: John Ferns, Carl Ballstadt, Linda Hutcheon, Joan ColdweIl, Magdalene Redekop, Louis Greenspan, Paul Walton, Robert Lecker, and Francesca Worral1; and readers for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities. l owe as weIl special thanks to Reginald and Margaret York for kindnesses too numerous to count, to Gillian Middleton for friendship, and to Miehael Ross for sharing so cheerfully my photographie obsessions. No one escapes the perjury of time; This permanence that light and shade have struck So brave in attitude, l would believe Essential and innocent of change. Howard Nemerov, "An Old Photograph"