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These Festive Nights ed 2

Marie-Claire Blais

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  • 312 sidor
  • 2018
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 Generals 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.
  • Författare: Marie-Claire Blais
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781487004583
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-09-20
  • Översättare: Sheila Fischman
  • Förlag: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada