These Festive Nights ed 2Author :
Paperback
Published : Thursday 20 September 2018
Description
The first volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blaisâ?T prize-winning novel cycle â?" acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction â?" 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 Blaisâ?T masterful series won the Governor Generalâ?Ts 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 Blaisâ?T 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 â?" for justice, for pleasure, for intoxication â?" 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 â?" 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.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
20 Sep 2018
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€15.20
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
30 Apr 2010
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€19.83
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
05 Jun 2024
Society and culture: general
€152.10
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
27 May 2024
The arts: general topics
€46.79
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews