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Mad Shadows
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Author : Marie-Claire Blais
language : en
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Release Date : 1960
Mad Shadows written by Marie-Claire Blais and has been published by New Canadian Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Fiction categories.
A harrowing pathology of the soul, "Mad Shadows" centres on a family group: Patrice, the beautiful and narcissistic son; his ugly and malicious sister, Isabelle-Marie; and Louise, their vain and uncomprehending mother. These characters inhabit an amoral universe where beauty reflects no truth and love is an empty delusion. Each character is ultimately annihilated by their own obsessions. Acclaimed and reviled when it exploded on the Quebec literary scene in 1959, "Mad Shadows" initiated a new era in Quebec fiction.
These Festive Nights
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Author : Marie-Claire Blais
language : en
Publisher: House of Anansi
Release Date : 2018-08-07
These Festive Nights written by Marie-Claire Blais and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-07 with Fiction categories.
The first volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’ prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition, featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore. Originally published in 1995 under the title Soifs, the first novel in Marie-Claire Blais’ masterful series won the Governor General’s Award for French Fiction and was hailed by critics around the world as a tour de force, comparing Blais to such literary greats as Virginia Woolf, Dante, Sophocles, and Shakespeare. In this dazzling rendering, These Festive Nights, celebrated translator Sheila Fischman brings Blais’ novel to life for English-speaking readers. A sun-drenched paradise in the Gulf of Mexico surrounded by the glimmering blue sea; Renata is convalescing on this island poised between two worlds: between great wealth and extreme poverty, between the past and an uncertain future, between the beauty of the world and the horrors of history. During her time here, Renata becomes tormented by thirst — for justice, for pleasure, for intoxication — while all around her, festivities are going on in joint celebration of the birth of baby Vincent and the end of the twentieth century. Over the course of three days and three nights a flock of characters assembles — an entire spectrum of humanity is depicted in the grip of doubt and suffering. In this swirling, baroque fresco, Marie-Claire Blais captures the essence of our apocalyptic age, rendering it in powerfully evocative prose.
Songs For Angel
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Author : Marie-Claire Blais
language : en
Publisher: House of Anansi
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Songs For Angel written by Marie-Claire Blais and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Fiction categories.
The ninth novel in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s extraordinary Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel is an impassioned interrogation of violence and hate that takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack. In the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ever to be undertaken in contemporary literature, renowned novelist Marie-Claire Blais once again marries the highest artistic standards with the most pressing human and political concerns. Revisiting figures from the previous novels in a swirling fresco of more than a hundred characters, Blais also takes us into the soul of “the Young Man,” a white supremacist preparing to attack a Black church and murder its entire congregation. This is an extraordinary portrait of the times that jostles and discomboluates the reader while inviting us to see the world in all its injustice and distress, but also its promise and beauty. Songs for Angel reminds us that Blais is a writer who never ceases to situate us in the world and the roles we play in it, and that reading her is always an unforgettable human experience.
Marie Claire Blais
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Author : Irène Oore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Marie Claire Blais written by Irène Oore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
The most comprehensive reference guide to one of Canada's most distinguished writers. A three-time Governor-General's Award winner, Marie-Claire Blais has changed the literary landscape of the nation. An indispensable source for information on both Blais's works and on the wealth of criticism devoted to the writer, this bibliography also provides accurate and insightful details about manuscript and archival material. Oore and MacLennan have fully annotated all of the critical material concerned with Blais's writing, and their book also includes thorough coverage of Blais-related radio and television broadcasts in France and Canada, as well as a guide to all published interviews with this important writer. An essential text to Blais scholars and of great interest to students and researchers in both Canadian and Québec literature, and in women's studies and comparative literature.
Mai At The Predators Ball
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Author : Marie-Claire Blais
language : en
Publisher: House of Anansi
Release Date : 2012-06-09
Mai At The Predators Ball written by Marie-Claire Blais and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-09 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation. In Mai at the Predators' Ball, Marie-Claire Blais, literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, offers a mesmerizing and unforgettable portrait of imaginary beings who seem to embrace the whole of humanity. Every night in the Saloon, after darkness falls, a group of boys are transformed into creatures we see only in dreams. They adorn themselves in colourful dresses and wigs and they take to the stage to sing and dance. They open their arms to those who are excluded -- both men and women, triumphant and threatened, both free and bound -- and every evening is a carnival of freedom and transgression. With this masterful novel, Blais invites us to share the drama of perfect joy, the tragedy of happiness, and she gives us her best work yet.
Thunder And Light
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Author : Marie-Claire Blais
language : en
Publisher: House of Anansi
Release Date : 2018-08-04
Thunder And Light written by Marie-Claire Blais and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-04 with Fiction categories.
The second volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition. Originally published in 2001, Thunder and Light is the second volume in Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning Soifs series, hailed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. Powered by its characters’ gripping exploration of the world’s dark corners, the novel is a teeming microcosm in which boundaries collapse and the extremes and contradictions that animate our times are reconciled. Blais locks us directly into the consciousness of her characters, many of whom we met in her previous novel, These Festive Nights, and many that she derives from actual news stories: Jessica, a seven-year-old attempting to beat the world record as the youngest pilot to cross the continent; Nathanaël, a teenager on death row for killing his favourite teacher; Our Lady of the Bags, a modern-day Joan of Arc who lives among Manhattan’s skyscrapers and follows the voices in her head; and Caroline and Jean-Mathieu, aging artists who are fighting to come together again. One character’s thoughts or actions have consequences for another 3,000 miles away who is a complete stranger to the first. This is an intricate house of cards, delicately but expertly constructed, that shocks us in its perversity and familiarity, ultimately finding hope and redemption in the most human and basic forms of art.
A Season In The Life Of Emmanuel
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Author : Marie-Claire Blais
language : en
Publisher: London : Cape
Release Date : 1967
A Season In The Life Of Emmanuel written by Marie-Claire Blais and has been published by London : Cape this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Canada categories.
Deaf To The City
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Author : Marie-Claire Blais
language : en
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Release Date : 2007-06
Deaf To The City written by Marie-Claire Blais and has been published by Exile Editions, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06 with Fiction categories.
This compelling story explores the motley crew of characters--including mother-turned-stripper Gloria, alcoholic Tim, frequent jailbird Charlie, and the suicidal wife of a rich doctor--who call the rundown Hôtel des Voyageurs home. Mesmerizing in its passion and humility, the narrative evokes the despair and innocence present in modern urban surroundings.
Illustrations For Two Novels By Marie Claire Blais
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Author : Mary Meigs
language : fr
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Release Date : 1977
Illustrations For Two Novels By Marie Claire Blais written by Mary Meigs and has been published by Exile Editions, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Fiction categories.
The Angel Of Solitude
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Author : Marie-Claire Blais
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Angel Of Solitude written by Marie-Claire Blais and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
Eight lesbian women strive to achieve an all-female utopia within which homophobia and their own pasts and differences are abolished.