Blais, Marie-Claire 1939-
Overview
| Works: | 414 works in 1,953 publications in 9 languages and 19,756 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Bibliographies Drama Lesbian fiction Novels History Domestic fiction Biographies Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Roles: | Author, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Creator, Bibliographic antecedent, Performer |
| Classifications: | PQ3919.B6, 843 |
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Most widely held works about
Marie-Claire Blais
- Marie-Claire Blais by Mary Jean Matthews Green( Book )
- American notebooks : a writer's journey by Marie-Claire Blais( Book )
- Marie-Claire Blais; le noir et le tendre. Étude d'Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel. Suivie d'une bibliographie critique by Vincent Nadeau( Book )
- Veiled countries ; Lives by Marie-Claire Blais( Book )
- L'oeuvre romanesque de Marie-Claire Blais by Françoise Laurent-Prigent( Book )
- Parcours d'un écrivain : notes américaines by Marie-Claire Blais( Book )
- Marie-Claire Blais : an annotated bibliography by Irène Oore( Book )
- Coprésences, entrecroisements : le pictural et le narratif chez Marie-Claire Blais et Sergio Kokis by Kirsty Bell( )
- Marie-Claire Blais by Philip Stratford( Book )
- Nouveaux discours chez les romancières québécoises : Monique Proulx, Monique LaRue et Marie-Claire Blais by Denisa-Adriana Oprea( Book )
- Le chant du sink. Préf. de Jean-Guy Sabourin by Jean Barbeau( Book )
- Des rencontres humaines by Marie-Claire Blais( Book )
- Marie-Claire Blais : dossier de presse, 1959-1980( Book )
- Marie-Claire Blais : le monde perturbé des jeunes dans l'œuvre de Marie-Claire Blais : sa vie, son œuvre, la critique : essai by Therese Fabi( Book )
- Visions poétiques de Marie-Claire Blais by Janine Ricouart( Book )
- Le monde perturbé des jeunes dans l'oeuvre de Marie-Claire Blais : sa vie, son oeuvre, la critique : essai by Thérèse Fabi( Book )
- Lectures de Marie-Claire Blais by Élisabeth Nardout-Lafarge( Book )
- Marie-Claire Blais y Margaret Atwood : bellas y bestias, oráculos y apocalipsis by Eva Pich-Ponce( )
- Pour les âmes, poèmes by Paul-Marie Lapointe( Book )
- Notes américaines : parcours d'un écrivain by Marie-Claire Blais( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Marie-Claire Blais
A season in the life of Emmanuel by
Marie Claire Blais(
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194 editions published between 1965 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 1,793 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Réimpression d'un roman paru en 1965. Une vision sombre, étrange et personnelle. La vie et les pensées d'un jeune héros "qui n'est qu'intelligence et sensibilité", révolte et désir d'innocence. Une grande oeuvre de tendance réaliste, centrée sur la vie d'une famille québéoise pauvre que domine une grand-mère toute puissante. Prix Médicis 1966. Prix France-Canada de la même année. [SDM]
194 editions published between 1965 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 1,793 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Réimpression d'un roman paru en 1965. Une vision sombre, étrange et personnelle. La vie et les pensées d'un jeune héros "qui n'est qu'intelligence et sensibilité", révolte et désir d'innocence. Une grande oeuvre de tendance réaliste, centrée sur la vie d'une famille québéoise pauvre que domine une grand-mère toute puissante. Prix Médicis 1966. Prix France-Canada de la même année. [SDM]
Mad shadows by
Marie Claire Blais(
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98 editions published between 1959 and 2020 in 5 languages and held by 989 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
98 editions published between 1959 and 2020 in 5 languages and held by 989 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
Deaf to the city by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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47 editions published between 1979 and 2011 in French and English and held by 841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
There is the Voyageurs hotel, moored like an old ship in the miserable quarter of a Canadian port. There is Glora Angeli, the Italian, who has been running it alone since her husband died in the street, murdered by a bunch of bastards
47 editions published between 1979 and 2011 in French and English and held by 841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
There is the Voyageurs hotel, moored like an old ship in the miserable quarter of a Canadian port. There is Glora Angeli, the Italian, who has been running it alone since her husband died in the street, murdered by a bunch of bastards
St. Lawrence blues : a novel by
Marie Claire Blais(
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53 editions published between 1973 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marie-Claire Blais wanted to write the novel of proletarian and marginal Montreal, but in fact she uses almost the same psychological and social variables as in her previous writings
53 editions published between 1973 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marie-Claire Blais wanted to write the novel of proletarian and marginal Montreal, but in fact she uses almost the same psychological and social variables as in her previous writings
The wolf by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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46 editions published between 1972 and 2011 in French and English and held by 656 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"When the world's most powerful mob boss loses his wife and daughters in a terrorist attack funded by one of his rivals, he resolves to turn the tables. Rallying the heads of the globe's top criminal organizations, Vincent Marelli launches a war that may be his last. With the weight of the criminal world on his shoulders, he has only one desire in his heart: to know who ordered the hit that took out his girls"--
46 editions published between 1972 and 2011 in French and English and held by 656 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"When the world's most powerful mob boss loses his wife and daughters in a terrorist attack funded by one of his rivals, he resolves to turn the tables. Rallying the heads of the globe's top criminal organizations, Vincent Marelli launches a war that may be his last. With the weight of the criminal world on his shoulders, he has only one desire in his heart: to know who ordered the hit that took out his girls"--
Tête blanche by
Marie Claire Blais(
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61 editions published between 1960 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
61 editions published between 1960 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A literary affair by
Marie Claire Blais(
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49 editions published between 1975 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Un roman d'éducation où un jeune écrivain québécois, épris de culture, part à la découverte de Paris. C'est une ville mondaine et superficielle qui se donne d'abord à lui, dans la première partie du livre, avant que ne lui apparaisse l'autre visage de la réalité française, qui lui apprendra à délaisser son esthétisme de surface pour s'attacher davantage à ses racines québécoises. On a parlé, à propos de ce roman, de pastiche proustien et de satire des milieux parisiens; sans doute faut-il tenir compte aussi, avec François Ricard qui donne à cette oeuvre une excellente "Postface critique", de la "dimension ironique" profonde de ce livre et résister à la tentation de la réduire à un message univoque. Au total, une réussite moyenne pour Marie-Claire Blais
49 editions published between 1975 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Un roman d'éducation où un jeune écrivain québécois, épris de culture, part à la découverte de Paris. C'est une ville mondaine et superficielle qui se donne d'abord à lui, dans la première partie du livre, avant que ne lui apparaisse l'autre visage de la réalité française, qui lui apprendra à délaisser son esthétisme de surface pour s'attacher davantage à ses racines québécoises. On a parlé, à propos de ce roman, de pastiche proustien et de satire des milieux parisiens; sans doute faut-il tenir compte aussi, avec François Ricard qui donne à cette oeuvre une excellente "Postface critique", de la "dimension ironique" profonde de ce livre et résister à la tentation de la réduire à un message univoque. Au total, une réussite moyenne pour Marie-Claire Blais
The day is dark, and Three travelers; two novellas by
Marie Claire Blais(
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30 editions published between 1962 and 1990 in French and English and held by 532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
30 editions published between 1962 and 1990 in French and English and held by 532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
These festive nights by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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40 editions published between 1995 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"An apocalyptic sensibility and stirring prose offer a vision of the consequences of humanity's tolerance of injustice and suffering in this celebrated novel. On the shores of the Gulf of Mexico during the last days of the 20th century, Renata and a host of personalities including artists, children, young men dying of AIDS, and refugees converge to celebrate a baby's birth and the turn of the millennium. Separate worlds of great wealth and extreme poverty intermingle on this island to reveal the challenges of life in the modern age."
40 editions published between 1995 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"An apocalyptic sensibility and stirring prose offer a vision of the consequences of humanity's tolerance of injustice and suffering in this celebrated novel. On the shores of the Gulf of Mexico during the last days of the 20th century, Renata and a host of personalities including artists, children, young men dying of AIDS, and refugees converge to celebrate a baby's birth and the turn of the millennium. Separate worlds of great wealth and extreme poverty intermingle on this island to reveal the challenges of life in the modern age."
The manuscripts of Pauline Archange; a novel by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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19 editions published between 1968 and 1983 in English and French and held by 452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
19 editions published between 1968 and 1983 in English and French and held by 452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
David Sterne by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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33 editions published between 1967 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Novelle over een prostitué annex dief in de onderwereld van een moderne stad
33 editions published between 1967 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Novelle over een prostitué annex dief in de onderwereld van een moderne stad
Dürer's angel : a novel by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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26 editions published between 1951 and 1993 in French and English and held by 423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
26 editions published between 1951 and 1993 in French and English and held by 423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The execution by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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23 editions published between 1968 and 1976 in French and English and held by 392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Execution is Marie-Claire Blais" only play for the stage. Set in a boarding school, it is the story of two schoolboys who plot the murder of one their classmates and enact the crime. As a play, it is a study of innocence, evil, and complicity, themes well-known to readers of Mille. Blais' fiction"--Page 4 of cover
23 editions published between 1968 and 1976 in French and English and held by 392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Execution is Marie-Claire Blais" only play for the stage. Set in a boarding school, it is the story of two schoolboys who plot the murder of one their classmates and enact the crime. As a play, it is a study of innocence, evil, and complicity, themes well-known to readers of Mille. Blais' fiction"--Page 4 of cover
Sommeil d'hiver by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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20 editions published between 1984 and 2014 in English and French and held by 379 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recueil de quatre textes dramatiques (L'exil - Fantôme d'une voix - Fièvre - Un couple) précédés d'une pièce de théâtre qui donne son titre au livre. Principaux thèmes : la beauté et la mort, la menace du silence, la solitude, la création, l'amour, la liberté et l'oppression
20 editions published between 1984 and 2014 in English and French and held by 379 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recueil de quatre textes dramatiques (L'exil - Fantôme d'une voix - Fièvre - Un couple) précédés d'une pièce de théâtre qui donne son titre au livre. Principaux thèmes : la beauté et la mort, la menace du silence, la solitude, la création, l'amour, la liberté et l'oppression
The fugitive by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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40 editions published between 1966 and 1992 in French and English and held by 378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
40 editions published between 1966 and 1992 in French and English and held by 378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Visions d'Anna, ou, Le vertige : roman by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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25 editions published between 1982 and 1990 in French and English and held by 333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Roman consacré à deux générations assez proches. Les parents ont connu, il n'y a pas longtemps, les problèmes qui agitent et perturbent leurs adolescents, de 13 à 18 ans. Ces fils de bourgeois, vulnérables, qui ont "toutes les chances" vont quand même à la dérive, les uns se droguent, les autres s'isolent, se désespèrent, "s'absentent". Ils sont tous angoissés et tentent d'échapper à la rumeur de guerre et de meurtre. Selon Marie-Claire Blais ("Book club", 14 mai 1982) certains de ces jeunes, qui accusent et reflètent notre société, "s'éveilleront aux autres". Le ton général reste cependant celui d'une certaine apocalypse; car que peut une dissidence fondée sur une passive différence? Un roman qui, comme l'écrit R. Martel, n'est pas "sans faiblesses"; il comporte même des incorrections (vocabulaire, ponctuation, etc.). [SDM]
25 editions published between 1982 and 1990 in French and English and held by 333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Roman consacré à deux générations assez proches. Les parents ont connu, il n'y a pas longtemps, les problèmes qui agitent et perturbent leurs adolescents, de 13 à 18 ans. Ces fils de bourgeois, vulnérables, qui ont "toutes les chances" vont quand même à la dérive, les uns se droguent, les autres s'isolent, se désespèrent, "s'absentent". Ils sont tous angoissés et tentent d'échapper à la rumeur de guerre et de meurtre. Selon Marie-Claire Blais ("Book club", 14 mai 1982) certains de ces jeunes, qui accusent et reflètent notre société, "s'éveilleront aux autres". Le ton général reste cependant celui d'une certaine apocalypse; car que peut une dissidence fondée sur une passive différence? Un roman qui, comme l'écrit R. Martel, n'est pas "sans faiblesses"; il comporte même des incorrections (vocabulaire, ponctuation, etc.). [SDM]
Rebecca, born in the maelstrom by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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19 editions published between 2008 and 2014 in French and English and held by 321 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""With this fourth novel in Marie-Claire Blais' award-winning series about contemporary North America, we are invited again to enter the lives of unforgettable characters, some familiar from the previous works and some new. As we follow a central character named Rebecca, the voice in the novel becomes the voice of the world inventing itself, and the future playing itself out." "--Book jacket
19 editions published between 2008 and 2014 in French and English and held by 321 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""With this fourth novel in Marie-Claire Blais' award-winning series about contemporary North America, we are invited again to enter the lives of unforgettable characters, some familiar from the previous works and some new. As we follow a central character named Rebecca, the voice in the novel becomes the voice of the world inventing itself, and the future playing itself out." "--Book jacket
Mai at the predators' ball by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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18 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 316 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mai is an unusually perceptive young woman whose uncensored observations on femininity and youth, freedom and constraint belie her age. And, in the Porte du Baiser Saloon, we meet a group of boys who adorn themselves in colourful dresses and wigs before they take to the stage to sing and dance every evening after darkness falls
18 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 316 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mai is an unusually perceptive young woman whose uncensored observations on femininity and youth, freedom and constraint belie her age. And, in the Porte du Baiser Saloon, we meet a group of boys who adorn themselves in colourful dresses and wigs before they take to the stage to sing and dance every evening after darkness falls
Augustino and the choir of destruction by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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15 editions published between 2004 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 284 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In Augustino, Marie-Claire Blais delivers a timely, and unsettling new installment in her ongoing portrait of North American life." "Augustino and the Choir of Destruction is set in a post-September 11 world, on an island in the Gulf of Mexico that is home to the full spectrum of humanity: the rich and the poor, the powerful and the humble, artists and criminals, young, middle-aged, and old. Marie-Claire Blais brilliantly shows in one flashing stroke the teeming lives and uncensored thoughts of men and women; victims and tormentors; kamikaze pilots and petty thieves; Marie Curie sacrificing herself to her thirst for knowledge; Our Lady of the Bags announcing the end of the world; Charles, a great poet cut down by AIDS; Petites Cendres, a transvestite prostituting himself to a customer; Caroline, an artist and photographer who has seen all the hidden treasures of the world; and Augustino, a clairvoyant child-writer who senses the destructive forces at work in the heart of his everyday life. These individual destinies combine in Blais' vision to form a single, harmonic texture, capturing the troubled spirit of our disjointed age."--Jacket
15 editions published between 2004 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 284 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In Augustino, Marie-Claire Blais delivers a timely, and unsettling new installment in her ongoing portrait of North American life." "Augustino and the Choir of Destruction is set in a post-September 11 world, on an island in the Gulf of Mexico that is home to the full spectrum of humanity: the rich and the poor, the powerful and the humble, artists and criminals, young, middle-aged, and old. Marie-Claire Blais brilliantly shows in one flashing stroke the teeming lives and uncensored thoughts of men and women; victims and tormentors; kamikaze pilots and petty thieves; Marie Curie sacrificing herself to her thirst for knowledge; Our Lady of the Bags announcing the end of the world; Charles, a great poet cut down by AIDS; Petites Cendres, a transvestite prostituting himself to a customer; Caroline, an artist and photographer who has seen all the hidden treasures of the world; and Augustino, a clairvoyant child-writer who senses the destructive forces at work in the heart of his everyday life. These individual destinies combine in Blais' vision to form a single, harmonic texture, capturing the troubled spirit of our disjointed age."--Jacket
Manuscrits de Pauline Archange by
Marie-Claire Blais(
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33 editions published between 1968 and 1981 in 3 languages and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pauline tells her personal story of growing up through paradoxes and insights that blend social, religious, and moral textures. Her world is populated by people who turn to violence or sink into quiet despair--it is a world damned. Pauline, her family, schoolmates, teachers, and friends are driven by tempestuous individual imperatives and the social deprivation they encounter
33 editions published between 1968 and 1981 in 3 languages and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pauline tells her personal story of growing up through paradoxes and insights that blend social, religious, and moral textures. Her world is populated by people who turn to violence or sink into quiet despair--it is a world damned. Pauline, her family, schoolmates, teachers, and friends are driven by tempestuous individual imperatives and the social deprivation they encounter
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Related Identities
- Spencer, Nigel 1945- Translator
- Green, Mary Jean Matthews Author
- Manheim, Ralph 1907-1992 Translator
- Coltman, Derek Translator
- Fischman, Sheila Translator
- Lobdell, David Translator
- Nadeau, Vincent Author
- Gaboriau, Linda Translator
- Stratford, Philip Author Translator
- Laurent-Prigent, Françoise Author
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Alienation (Social psychology) Artists Authors, French-Canadian Authorship Blais, Marie-Claire, Brothers and sisters Canada Canadian fiction Childbirth Civilization Communication Cross-dressers Death Dwellings Entertainers Europe Families Farm life Feminism and literature France--Paris French-Canadian drama French-Canadian fiction French-Canadian fiction--Women authors French-Canadian literature French-Canadians French fiction French literature Good and evil Graphic arts Homes Interpersonal relations Islands Kokis, Sergio, LaRue, Monique Literature Marginality, Social Massachusetts--Cambridge Maturation (Psychology) Proulx, Monique, Québec Québec--Montréal Racism Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (Blais, Marie-Claire) Southern States Travel Tropics United States Women and literature Young women Youth
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Alternative Names
Blais M.-C.
Blais Marie-Claire
Blais, Marie-Claire 1939-
Marie-Claire Blais Canadees toneelschrijfster
Marie-Claire Blais Canadian writer
Marie-Claire Blais escriptora canadenca
Marie-Claire Blais escritora canadiense
Marie-Claire Blais kanadalainen kirjailija
Marie-Claire Blais kanadische Schriftstellerin
Marie-Claire Blais scríbhneoir Ceanadach
Marie-Claire Blais scriitoare canadiană
Marie-Claire Blais scrittrice canadese
Marie-Claire Blais shkrimtare kanadeze
مارى كلير بليس
ماري كلير بليس كاتبة كندية
ماری-کلر بله
ماری-کلێر بولێ
ブレ, マリ・クレール
マリ＝クレール・ブレ
Languages
French
(630)
English (309)
German (7)
Spanish (5)
Italian (2)
Swedish (1)
Lithuanian (1)
Miscellaneous languages (1)
Dutch (1)
English (309)
German (7)
Spanish (5)
Italian (2)
Swedish (1)
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