In 2013, Jacob Richler wrote about his father’s work and the opening of the Mordecai Richler Reading Room at Concordia University:
By the nineties, his Montreal office had been relegated to fulfilling only the smallest jobs, like letters and newspaper columns. His annual six months in London yielded plenty of journalism. But the extremely serious business of writing very funny fiction had become almost entirely a cottage job. For starters he had brought along a small selection from his original English library, transported with the rest of our goods from London when we moved from there to Montreal in 1972. Therein were such items as his cloth-bound set of the complete works of Balzac, and his treasured, unabridged OED, a birthday gift from my mother that already spanned 12 massive volumes when she gave it to him in the late sixties—and had acquired innumerable supplements since.
New shelves filled out the basement. They wound their way through my mother’s new study and through her kitchen. They spread through the living room, framing the fireplace and staircase. They came to cover at least one wall in each of our bedrooms. They were installed to fill three massive walls of my father’s office—with a few stand-alone units in between.
She also wanted it presented in a way that amounted to some sort of permanent monument to his favourite workspace—through inclusion of select papers, and in particular, his favourite desk. Not the beautiful antique roll top she had found him at a Montreal auction—oak, with bird’s-eye maple inserts . His favourite desk was his country desk, fashioned makeshift by the cottage handyman from planks of unfinished pine.
The collection must be preserved!
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