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Marie-Claire Blais (1939–2021)

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Marie Claire Blais, 1939 - French-Canadian writer Marie Claire Blais was born in 1939. Her first published novel, "La Belle Bete" (1959; Mad Shadows, 1960), was received with mixed reviews. It tells the story of a family in her native Quebec Province that is shut off from other people and love. vis mere Blais has also written plays and poetry and used poetic techniques in the novella "Le Jour est Noir" (1962; The Day is Dark, 1967). Her best known novel, "Une Saison dans la Vie d'Emmanuel" (1965; A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, 1966), won France's Prix Medicis and tells the bleak story of people trapped in their worn degraded, poverty-stricken worlds. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: Marie Blais, Marie C. Blais, Blais Marie-Claire

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Værker af Marie-Claire Blais

Et år af Emmanuels liv (1965) 199 eksemplarer
Mad Shadows (1959) 162 eksemplarer
These Festive Nights (1995) 61 eksemplarer
Nights in the Underground (1978) 52 eksemplarer
St. Lawrence Blues (1974) 46 eksemplarer
Deaf to the City (1979) 34 eksemplarer
The Angel of Solitude (1989) 30 eksemplarer
Tete Blanche (1961) 23 eksemplarer
The Wolf (1973) 19 eksemplarer
A Literary Affair (1975) 16 eksemplarer
Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom (2008) 15 eksemplarer
Mai at the Predators' Ball (2010) 14 eksemplarer
Durer's Angel (1970) 13 eksemplarer
Thunder and Light (2001) 11 eksemplarer
The fugitive (1971) 11 eksemplarer
David Sterne (1967) 10 eksemplarer
Nothing For You Here, Young Man (2014) 9 eksemplarer
The Execution (Talonplays) (1968) 8 eksemplarer
Veiled Countries/Lives (1988) 8 eksemplarer
Pierre (1984) 6 eksemplarer
Anna's World (1982) 6 eksemplarer
Wintersleep (1984) 5 eksemplarer
Le jeune homme sans avenir (2012) 4 eksemplarer
Oeuvre poétique : 1957-1996 (1997) 4 eksemplarer
Vivre! Vivre Roman (1981) 3 eksemplarer
L'Exile (1995) 3 eksemplarer
Aux Jardins des Acacias (2014) 3 eksemplarer
A Twilight Celebration (2019) 3 eksemplarer
Nights Too Short to Dance (2023) 2 eksemplarer
L'Ile (1988) 2 eksemplarer
Une réunion près de la mer (2018) 2 eksemplarer
Des rencontres humaines (2002) 1 eksemplar
Songs for Angel (2021) 1 eksemplar
The Acacia Gardens (2016) 1 eksemplar
Les apparences : roman (1991) 1 eksemplar
Théâtre (1998) 1 eksemplar
Parcours d'un ecrivain (1993) 1 eksemplar
Existences 1 eksemplar
Les Voyageurs Sacres (1969) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Op til overfladen (1972) — Efterskrift, nogle udgaver4,310 eksemplarer
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 174 eksemplarer
From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories (1990) — Bidragyder — 128 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories (1984) — Introduktion; Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer

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Fødselsdato
1939-10-05
Dødsdag
2021-11-30
Køn
female
Nationalitet
Canada
Fødested
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Dødssted
Key West, Florida, USA
Bopæl
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Brittany, France
Key West, Florida, USA
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Uddannelse
Université Laval
Erhverv
novelist
poet
playwright
scriptwriter
Relationer
Meigs, Mary (partner)
Deming, Barbara (partner)
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Order of Canada
Matt Cohen Prize (2006)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Prix Athanase-David (1982)
Agent
Goodwin Agency
Kort biografi
Marie-Claire Blais was born to a working class family in Québec, Canada. She attended a convent school, but had to interrupt her education at age 15 to work, first as a clerk and later as a typist. At 17, she enrolled in a few classes at Laval University, where she met professor and literary critic Jeanne Lapointe and priest and sociologist Georges-Henri Lévesque, both of whom encouraged her to write.
Her debut novel, La belle bête (English translation: Mad Shadows) was published in 1959, when she was 20. It was quickly followed by Tête blanche in 1960. She received a grant from the Canada Council of Arts that allowed her to begin writing full-time, and she moved to Paris and later to the USA. Literary critic Edmund Wilson introduced her to artists and writers in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, including feminist Barbara Deming and writer and painter Mary Meigs. The three lived together in Wellfleet for six years. Blais was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and in 1975, moved back to Canada. For about 20 years she divided her time between Québec and Key West, Florida. Many of her novels were adapted for other formats: La belle bête was made into a ballet by the National Ballet of Canada in 1977 and into a film in 1976. Others made into movies included Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (1973); Le sourd dans la ville (Deaf to the City, 1987); and L'océan (1971).

She wrote a 10-volume series starting with Soifs (1995), translated into English as These Festive Islands, set in an island town modeled on Key West and her varied friends and acquaintances there. She had a devoted readership in the French language and won four Canadian Governor General's Literary Awards in her career.

In addition to her novels, she wrote several plays, collections of poetry, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television.

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Quebecois author Marie-Claire Blais may be the best writer I had never heard of, if her 1969 novel The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange is a good representation of her work. These are the writings of young Pauline, the oldest daughter of a poor family in what I am guessing is mid-century Montreal. Her world is a world of rules that are almost always broken, neighbors who live too close, a sick and disapproving mother (who deep down is very much like Pauline herself), passionate friendships, clinging Catholicism, and a desire to experience and create art that her circumstances seem destined to deny. Written with an adult sensibility and frequently slipping out of Pauline's mind into the dialogues and thoughts of those around her, this is a fever dream of a book that conjures a rich portrait of Pauline and her world. Not sure how it reads in the original French, but this translation is complex and surprising, just like Pauline herself.… (mere)
 
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kristykay22 | Nov 25, 2023 |
René, un anciano transgénero que tocaba el piano en cabarets, pasa los últimos momentos de su vida postrado en una cama bajo la estricta vigilancia de Olga, una enfermera con la que rememora días de militancia, y viejos amores y amistades.

Ahora, a sus noventa y tres años, echa la vista atrás para evocar tanta vida compartida y duramente conquistada: las revueltas de Stonewall, la represión policial, décadas de activismo por los derechos de la comunidad LGTBIQ , los estragos de la irrupción del sida, que tantos amigos se llevó, los cuidados entre personas que comparten la marginación... ¿Adónde ha ido a parar tanto esfuerzo, si siguen oyéndose voces intolerantes que amenazan con derrumbarlo todo? René sabe que su lucha y la de sus amigas no ha cesado: lo que empezó en los años sesenta sigue en la era Trump.

Con una prosa arrolladora, sensible, poética y comprometida, Marie-Claire Blais coloca al lector ante la brutalidad y la hostilidad que históricamente han padecido las personas queer, pero entre tanto dolor consigue que sea inevitable vislumbrar destellos de belleza, amor y sensualidad que permiten celebrar la vida como una fiesta.
… (mere)
 
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bibliotecayamaguchi | Apr 4, 2023 |
This was a novel that was read by Mott The Hoople’s Svengali, Guy Stevens, and became one of their album titles as well.

It’s a strange tale of an unhappy family but appellee entitled mad, dark, and in the shadows. There is the beautiful but idiot son, the long-suffering daughter who is ugly, the narcissistic mother and they do not live happily ever after. The afterword claims that somehow this is in the context of Roman Catholic Quebec but for the life of me I don’t see any Catholic references in it at all. If anything it reminds me of E.L. Doctorow’s Sweet Land stories short, depressing, and sad.… (mere)
 
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gmicksmith | 2 andre anmeldelser | Jan 24, 2020 |

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