Marie-Claire Blais
Born
in Quebec City, Canada
October 05, 1939
Died
November 30, 2021
Genre
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Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
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published
1965
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39 editions
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Mad Shadows
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published
1959
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24 editions
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These Festive Nights
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published
1995
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4 editions
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Tete Blanche
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published
1969
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10 editions
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Les nuits de l'Underground
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published
1978
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9 editions
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Un corazón habitado por mil voces
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Les Manuscrits de Pauline Archange - Vivre ! Vivre ! - Les Apparences
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published
1976
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2 editions
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Thunder and Light
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published
2001
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4 editions
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Petites-Cendres ou la capture
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Mai at the Predators' Ball (Soifs Cycle, 5)
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published
2010
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9 editions
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“When there is no bread and even when there is we should eat our fill of one another.”
― The Wolf
― The Wolf
“what was it, oh if only this kind of delay wasn’t happening just when Mai, away at college and so far from them, was coming back for a visit, you can never be sure of course, not even sure she was still his daughter, what he did seem to know was the wild sparrow in Madrid, chirping in despair like the chick this morning, endless cries ignored by merchants, standing with cross-armed in front of their shops, and about to sweep it away with the street dust under its golden newborn feathers, when would all this stop drumming in Daniel’s ears like the sparrow he’d left to its fate among the cables of the Madrid station, and this is what we all do without a clue how it leads to our undoing, unknowingly building airports, stations, steel and concrete deserts,”
― Nothing for You Here, Young Man
― Nothing for You Here, Young Man
“Mabel went on, and you Petites Cendres, you haven’t forgotten we’re throwing a party for your Doctor Dieudonné, oh yes, soon as he gets back, the entire Black Ancestral Choir’s going to celebrate Dieudonné, man of God taking care of the poor and never asking for one cent, why did he have to go away said Petites Cendres, carefree in the comfort of his bed, wasn’t his clinic enough, he mumbled into the dishevelled folds of his sloth, I mean why go volunteer there when we’re holding a party for him right here, Mabel’s singsong voice cut in, going from deep to nasal, he’s getting the town’s medal of honour for doctoring all you lazy layabouts and lost souls, and running two hospitals and a hospice, our very own choir director’s going to give him his plaque with those same fingers and long thin red nails of hers, the ideal man, says the doctor, is not one who piles up money but one who saves lives, why he’s even helped our Ancestral Choir a whole lot too, he’s going to need a nice black tuxedo, just what he hates, and Eureka, the head of the choir, will be so proud that day when Reverend Ézéchielle invites us all to sing in her church,”
― Nothing for You Here, Young Man
― Nothing for You Here, Young Man
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