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THE COLLECTED STAGE DRAMA OF MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS
THE COLLECTED STAGE DRAMA OF MARIECLAIRE BLAIS Author:Marie-Claire Blais Best known as the most important voice in Quobcois fiction of the last fifty years, Marie-Claire Blais is also an accomplished playwright. Her works have been performed in French on Radio-Canada, and on the stages of Montreal and Quebec City. In her stage plays, as with her radio plays and her fiction, Marie-Claire Blais works from a post-religi... more »ous world view, but with the structures of religion in place; in short, she is a contemporary Dante, writing about good and evil in a civil context. Her characters, however, are more than just symbols; they are real people, struggling with moral dilemmas. In the novel, A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, Blais wrote from the point of view of a child under a table; the point of view itself was a metaphor for the society in which she found herself in the late 1950s and early 1960s, just prior to Quebec_s Quiet Revolution. The plays included in this edition are evidence of Blais_ great talent when brought to bear on the theatre, especially in the plays The Execution, Desire, and Envy.« less