Portrait de l’artiste en amérindien dans Betsi Larousse ou l’ineffable eccéité de la loutre

In keeping with the tradition of nature writers, Hamelin sides with the environmentalists. In Betsi Larousse ou l’ineffable eccéité de la loutre, the social function of art intersects with an ecologist’s concerns. The relationship between a sculptor in love with wilderness and a singer in showbiz in Montreal leads to a critique of commercialism and the reconfiguration of an art of nature. The symbiosis of the artist with the forest comes about in the form of a redemptive enwilding (ensauvagement).