«La plus haute destinée»: portrait de quelques écrivains fictifs dans Soifs de Marie-Claire Blais
“The Highest Destiny”: The Portrait of Some Fictitious Writers in Marie-Claire Blais’ Soifs

Author(s): Lise Gauvin
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Quebec literature; Marie-Claire Blais; figure of the writer
Summary/Abstract: Poet, playwright and novelist Marie-Claire Blais describes a world of contrasts and contradictions, creating characters whose anguish is coupled with an immense appetite for life. Questioning the speeches and events that mark her time, Marie-Claire Blais through her stories brings to life a plethora of poets and novelists who constitute many variations around the writer’s character and the public image attached to it. The cycle of Soifs, questions the place of the artist in the social space. The article focuses more particularly on the first three as well as the last three novels of the cycle.

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