SOURCE: "Interview with Nicole Brossard on Picture Theory." in Canadian Fiction Magazine, No. 47, 1983, pp. 122-35.

In the following interview, Brossard discusses the form and major themes of her novel Picture Theory, and its relationship to her other work.

[Canadian Fiction Magazine:] Firstly, why did you return to an English expression by an Austrian writer, Wittgenstein, in a Québecois novel that deals with language?

[Brossard:] In Amantes, I had already used the expression "Picture theory" for its intriguing, aesthetic qualities, if I may use those terms. It's an expression that fascinated, seduced me. On the one hand because of the word "picture," and on the other because of the word "theory." Little by little I got to know the works of Wittgenstein. So "Picture theory" could be rendered by "picture of reality" or "painting of reality." I don't think the word "theory" can be translated by the same...