Abstract
Atwood's contribution to the Canadian Literature is regarded as one of the most important of the past century. As an author, a poet and also a critic, she has distinguished herself by her literary eclecticism and her political and feminist involvement. She is also among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history. Born in 1939, she has spent a large part of her childhood in North Quebec as the narrator of Surfacing (1972), a founder book in Atwood's work. Surfacing is the story of a young woman who returns to her childhood land with a couple of friends, Richard and Anna, and her lover, Joe, to look for her disappeared father who had gone without explanations. This come back to the familiar home located on a remote island of Quebec behind closed doors will be the occasion to face her memories, her past and to surface, cleared out of her neurosis, and be able to brave a real new world. This book has been acclaimed, cheered, but also criticized.
