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Biographie Marie Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais (n. 5 octombrie 1939) este o scriitoare canadiană de limbă franceză.
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Born in Quebec City, Quebec, she was educated at a convent school and at Université Laval. It was at Laval that she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges Lévesque, who encouraged her to write and, in 1959, to publish her first novel, La Belle Bête (trans. Mad Shadows) in 1959 when she turned 20. She has since written over 20 novels, several plays, collections of poetry and fiction, as well newspaper articles. Her works have been translated into numerous languages, including English and Chinese. With the support of the eminent American critic Edmund Wilson, Blais won two Guggenheim Fellowships.
In 1963, Blais moved to the United States, initially living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There she met her partner, American artist Mary Meigs, and she later relocated to Wellfleet on Cape Cod. In 1975, after two years living in Brittany, she moved back to Quebec with her partner. For about twenty years she divided her time between Montreal, the Eastern Townships of Quebec and Key West, Florida
Much of Blais' writing has been in the form of social commentary, with intermixed elements of good and evil in settings part real, and part fantasy. Her works lean toward the tragic, within a hostile society of vice and violence. The strength of Blais' writing ability is rewarding to the reader in spite of the darker aspects of her themes.
In 1972 she became a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Her works Le Sourd dans la ville (1979), Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (1965) and La Belle Bête (1959), have been adapted for the cinema, the latter by Canadian film director Karim Hussain in 2006.
Works
La Belle Bête (Mad Shadows) - 1959
Tête Blanche (Tête Blanche) - 1960
Le Jour est noir - ("The Day is Dark" in The Day is Dark and Three Travellers) 1962
Pays voilés ("Veiled Countries" in Veiled Countries/Lives) - 1963
Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (A Season in the Life of Emmanuel) - 1965
L'insoumise (The Fugitive) - 1966
Existences ("Lives" in Veiled Countries/Lives) - 1967
Les Manuscrits de Pauline Archange (The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange) - 1968
L'exécution (The Execution) - 1968
Les Voyageurs sacrés ("Three Travellers" in The Day is Dark and Three Travellers) - 1969
Vivre! Vivre! (The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange) - 1969
Le Loup (The Wolf) - 1970
Un Joualonais, sa Joualonie (St. Lawrence Blues) - 1973
Fièvre et autres textes dramatiques - 1974
Une Liaison parisienne (A Literary Affair) - 1975
Les Apparences (Dürer's Angel) - 1976
Océan suivi de murmures - 1977
Les Nuits de l'underground (Nights in the Underground) - 1978
Le Sourd dans la ville (Deaf to the City) - 1979
Visions d'Anna ou Le vertige (Anna's World) - 1982
Sommeil d'hiver (Wintersleep) - 1984
Pierre, la guerre du printemps (Pierre) - 1984
L'ÃŽle (The Island) - 1989]
L'Ange de la solitude (The Angel of Solitude) - 1989
Parcours d'un écrivain: Notes américaines (American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey) - 1993
Soifs (These Festive Nights) - 1995
(The Exile and the Sacred Travellers) - 2000
Dans la foudre et la lumière (Thunder and Light) - 2001
The Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais - 2007
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