Marie Claire Blais

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487006334

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Songs for Angel by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

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.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771093524

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Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

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.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487004590

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These Festive Nights by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

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.

Author : Irène Oore,Oriel C. L. MacLennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021456848

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Marie-Claire Blais by Irène Oore,Oriel C. L. MacLennan Pdf

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.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487004262

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Thunder and Light by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

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.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : London : Cape
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Canada
ISBN : LCCN:b67006620

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A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

Author : Mary Meigs
Publisher : Exile Editions, Ltd.
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0920428002

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Illustrations for Two Novels by Marie-Claire Blais by Mary Meigs Pdf

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770891968

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Mai at the Predators' Ball by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

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.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487000189

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The Acacia Gardens by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

What anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning? Shouldn’t he be reassured by the thought that he now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a comfortable home where all find care, understanding, and healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy, listen to the diabolical confessions of Wrath, the fugitive priest, without shuddering? And, can Daniel the writer finish his novel, the one he has been working on for twenty years, despite his sensitivity and empathy for all creatures, even if they are the most humble, like the lizard he inadvertently crushed under his sandal? With this latest novel, Marie-Claire Blais once again gives us a vibrant portrait that embraces the span of life — from birth to death and beyond. Her characters question their purpose and what will come after, as they are confronted by evil that lives and that has taken root.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : Exile Editions, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155096013X

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Deaf to the City by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

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.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39076001340202

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Nights in the Underground by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

Through Genevieve--a woman struggling with an idealistic vision of love--a door is opened into the lives of the characters through which Marie-Claire Blais came to the forefront of feminism in Canada. Night after night in a club called The Underground, Genevieve and her friends live out their loves and their tragedies apart from the day-to-day life of the city. Each glance, each embrace, and each ensuing encounter weaves a profound matrix of human isolation, with transcendence found in the healing power of love.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032575089

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The Angel of Solitude by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

Eight lesbian women strive to achieve an all-female utopia within which homophobia and their own pasts and differences are abolished.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : Exile Classics
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131663580

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A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness that emerged in the 1960s known as "the quiet revolution." The story of Emmanuel and his 15 brothers and sisters spotlights the grinding poverty under the mental regime of the Catholic Church at its least enlightened and most inescapable. This insightful narrative documents the hardships and cruelties of their social condition with dark humor and passionate imagination as they endeavor to survive harsh schools, dreary convents, and hunger.

Author : Marie-Claire Blais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000056344280

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L'instant fragile by Marie-Claire Blais Pdf

Author : Richard Teleky
Publisher : Brantford : W. Ross Macdonald School, 1985. (Toronto : CNIB)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015013289122

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The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories by Richard Teleky Pdf

The first major historical collection of French-Canadian short stories in translation, spanning a century and a half, this anthology offers twenty-two stories that will entertain, charm, and often disturb. At the same time they reveal the development of the French-Canadian short-story form, and present many of the leading writers of French Canada.