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Night after night through the winter, 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. Translation of "Les nuits de l'underground." 1979. Uniform title: Nuits de l'underground.
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A harrowing pathology of the soul centering 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. The characters are ultimately annihilated by their own obsessions. Original French edition published in 1959. 1990. Uniform title: Belle bête.
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Daniel, a middle-aged novelist and loving father alienated from one of his sons and unsure how to care for his…
daughter, is on his way to an international conference of writers. The gathering is to be held in the forest above a mountain village of a strangely dreamlike nature. In the twilight of the festival’s setting, dreams, memories, nightmares, and dark forebodings meld in Daniel’s unsettled but deeply sympathetic consciousness: He is haunted by pressing existential questions: What is to be done? What are his responsibilities as a father, as a friend — and as a writer? As Daniel confronts his own vanities, as he recalls the activism but also the disappointments and betrayals of friends and colleagues — as he contends with, above all, the fears and aspirations of his children in times marred by apocalypse, he asks, ultimately, what can be done?In what may well be the most beautiful and disturbing of her novels, Marie-Claire Blais leads us on a heady, spellbinding journey through an interconnected world in which the artist strives to divert humankind’s headlong rush towards a terrible destiny. Here is a world in which friends and strangers, the living, the dead and those not yet born, are inextricably bonded by their often flawed but always splendid humanity. Yet again, Blais captivates with her urgent concerns, irrepressible empathy, and singular idiom: A Twilight Celebration is an astonishing literary accomplishment.
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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? 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. 2016. Uniform title: Aux jardins des acacias.
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An island in the Gulf of Mexico is home to the full spectrum of humanity: the rich, the poor, the…
powerful, the humble, artists, criminals. Here live men and women; victims and tormentors; child kamikaze pilots and petty thieves from Bahama Street; Charles, a great poet cut down by AIDS; Caroline, an artist and photographer who has seen all the hidden treasures of the world; and Augustino, a clairvoyant child-writer. Sequel to "Thunder and light" (DC22998). Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007, c2005. Uniform title: Augustino et le chœur de la destruction.
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Anna, a runaway, returns to Canada to find that her heritage is the sharp awareness of her own fragility in the face of imminent nuclear catastrophe. 1985.
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"Thunder and Light" is the second volume in Blais's trilogy chronicling the apocalyptic mood of our times. It reunites us…
with many of the characters from the first book as well as a fresh cast: Jessica, a young pilot sacrificed for her parents' ambitions; the Blessed Bag Lady, who lives among the Manhattan skyscrapers and, like a modern-day Joan of Arc, follows the voices she hears in her head; and Caroline and Jean-Mathieu, aging artists fighting against the forces attempting to separate them. Sequel to "These festive nights" (DC15391). 2001. Uniform title: Dans la foudre et la lumière.
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Renata, convalescing from surgery, is enjoying a sun-drenched paradise in the Gulf of Mexico with her husband, Claude. But under…
the world of wealth, privilege, and beauty lie poverty and an uncertain future as the world approaches a millennial crisis. Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for French Fiction. 1997. Uniform title: Soifs.