Season in the Life of Emmanuel
Set in a Quebec farm family, the novel follows the birth of the infant Emmanuel and the rebellion, poverty, faith, and violence that shape the children living under the rule of their domineering grandmother Antoinette.
Work Information
In a house sealed off by cold and hunger, one birth throws a collapsing family order into sharp relief.
First published in Canada in 1965 and awarded the Prix Médicis in France the following year, this key novel depicts brutal family dynamics and the suffocating life of a winter farm landscape in a style where cruelty and poetry coexist. It helped establish Marie-Claire Blais as an international writer.
Review Summaries
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Critics praise the way the novel turns harsh reality into poetry instead of merely denouncing it. The family life is brutal, yet the music of the prose keeps the book from becoming simply bleak.
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The novel is read as creating a severe, visionary sense of humanity through the clash between Quebec's winter landscape and the characters' inner lives. The tension between cold reality and imaginative heat is especially striking.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- 1980-10-01
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780374516161
- ISBN-10
- 0374516162
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
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Reviews
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One Star
boring
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Original paperback, in excellent condition. Good shipping.
The book arrived in excellent condition and in a timely manner.
Related Literary Awards
- Prix Médicis Edition 9 (1966) ・Winner