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	Marie-Claire Blais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marie-Claire Blais CC, OQ (born 5 October 1939) is a Canadian author and playwright.
		Born in Quebec City, Quebec, she was educated at a convent school and at Université Laval.
		The strength of Blais' writing ability is rewarding to the reader in spite of the darker aspects of her themes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marie-Claire_Blais (444 words)

	Blais, Marie-Claire
		Back in Montréal Blais met American critic Edmund Wilson and was awarded two Guggenheim fellowships that enabled her to live in New England with friends, painter Mary Meigs and journalist Barbara Deming.
		Blais moved to Brittany with Meigs in 1972 and, after some years in Europe, settled in Montréal, where she continues to write at a steady pace.
		Blais was named the 1995-96 International Woman of the Year by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000810 (469 words)

	The Exile & The Sacred Travellers: Marie-Claire Blais
		In this collection of nine short stories and the powerful novella "The Sacred Travellers," Marie-Claire Blais offers an exploration of the major themes of her work: the pain of desire, the fragility and vulnerability of the human spirit, the quest for purity and generosity, and the pitiless search for truth.
		Yet the exile explored by Marie-Claire Blais is far more than a matter of circumstance; it is the metaphysical exile of humans wandering the face of the earth, looking for a place, a self, to call their own.
		Many of Blais’ characters have passed through the 1960s, and are now refracting life in ways unexpected and unrecognizable, as increasing awareness compensates for diminishing powers.
	www.ronsdalepress.com /catalogue/exile.html (263 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Marie Claire Blais
		The impressive number of works that followed were produced at surprising speed: to date, some twenty novels have been published in France and in Quebec, all of them translated into English, as well as five plays and collections of poems.
		Blais, Marie-Claire, author (b at Québec C 5 Oct 1939).
		Back in Montréal Blais met American critic Edmund Wilson and was awarded 2 Guggenheim fellowships that enabled her to live in New England with friends, painter Mary Meigs and journalist Barbara Deming.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Marie_Claire-Blais (1204 words)

	Marie-Claire Blais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Biographie Das Leben von Marie Luise Kaschnitz in einem Kurzportrait von Norgard Kohlhagen.
		Marie of the Incarnation was French-born, joined the Ursulines, and died in Quebec in 1672.
		Marie Overbye Marie Overbyes personlige hjemmeside om hendes triathlonkarriere.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Marie-Claire_Blais.html (971 words)

	Eye Weekly - On Page - 05.01.97
		These short essays by Blais, a Governor-General's Award winner, and author of 20 novels, five plays and several collections of poetry, are as foreboding as her darkest fiction.
		Blais is fascinated by the dark side of human nature.
		Blais describes her experience of writing as "the fear of getting lost in the complex paths of the imaginary which are nonetheless paved with true and grave realities." These notebooks were embarked on with an acute knowledge of mortality and the precariousness of our existence.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.01.97/plus/books.html (707 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Blais, Marie-Claire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Blais has gone on to be an immensely prolific presence on both the Quebec and the international French literary scene.
		Blais went to live with Meigs at Wellfleet on Cape Cod, where she became acquainted with the literary and artistic circle of which Wilson was a prominent member.
		Blais remains enormously productive and, despite a certain reluctance among critics and the establishment altogether to accept the gay and lesbian content of her fiction, she continues to enjoy public acclaim.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/blais_mc.html (606 words)

	Canadian Literature: Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Blais offers an extended metaphor of the painful divisiveness of cultural self-absorption, the pull of rival passions as the characters seek and lose each other against a backdrop of concert halls and European cathedrals.
		Renate has had a lung removed, and she is an inveterate smoker; her thirsts are partly assuaged by whisky and the gaming tables and by brushes with low life.
		We live in apocalyptic times, and Marie-Claire Blais, with a mixture of compassion and dread, is their supreme chronicler.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/175/143_May.html (627 words)

	Blais, Marie-Claire
		Marie-Claire Blais grew up in poverty and was educated by nuns at a convent school.
		This childhood of distress and strict discipline served as the background for her early writing.
		Blais has written more than two dozen books.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0000810 (217 words)

	Wintersleep: Marie-Claire Blais
		The plays are known to francophones in their original publication by Les editions de la pleine lune; four of the plays have also been broadcast in French on the F.M. network of Radio Canada.
		They present a shattered psychic landscape, yet one that is not lacking in hope nor in the daring and balance they demand of author, actor and director alike.
		Marie-Claire Blais published her first novel at age twenty and has gone on to write twenty-one novels, all of which have been translated into English.
	www.ronsdalepress.com /catalogue/wintersleep.html (289 words)

	Marie-Claire Blais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Marie-Claire Blais, born in Québec City, was barely twenty in 1959 when she published La Belle bête (translated as Mad Shadows in 1960).
		Blais (was) a true phenomenon: she may possibly be a genius.”
		Although places and times are rarely identified with precision, it is obvious that the traditionalist Québec society of her childhood and adolescence offers her a prime target.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/304-305.htm (672 words)

	Marie-Claire Blais and Dostoevsky: Observations from the Notebooks Canadian Slavonic Papers - Find Articles
		Blais' thirteen working notebooks (1962-1974) contain one hundred eighty references to works and characters in Russian literature, some sixty of which relate to Dostoevsky.
		Analysis of these references shows that Blais throughout her formative years studied Dostoevsky rigorously and thoroughly.
		Using the seven mentions of Alyosha from The Brothers Karamazov as a starting point, we examine Blais' creation of a series of Alyosha-figures in Un Joualonais sa Joualonie (1973), Visions d'Anna, ou le vertige (1982), and Dans la foudre et la lumière (2001), each representing a possible alternative development of the character-type.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200409/ai_n11849790 (511 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Marie-Claire Blais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Marie-Claire Blais, who was called “the greatest living writer born in Québec” when Dans la foudre et la lumière appeared in 2001, has published twenty-three works of fiction; more than twenty texts for stage, radio, television, film and video; two volumes of poetry; three works of non-fiction; and many articles.
		She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1986, the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique in 1992 (the first Québec woman elected to a European literary academy), the Académie des lettres du Québec in 1994, and was named Chevalier des arts et des lettres de France in 1999.
		Despite the active discouragement she received from school and church, Blais knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5281 (512 words)

	Y-File
		Marie-Claire Blais, an award-winning Canadian author and playwright, is the keynote speaker at a conference examining the Americanization of Quebec society and its culture being held at York University''s Glendon College, March 27-29.
		Her talk is scheduled for Friday, March 28, at 5pm in the Albert Tucker Room (third floor, York Hall) of York''s Glendon College.
		Blais has written more than 30 works including: La Belle Bete (Mad Shadows), published when she was 20; Une Saison dans la vie d’Emmanuel (A Season in the Life of Emmanuel), which is taught regularly in university and college courses; and Soifs (These Festive Nights), which won the Governor General’s Award in 1996.
	www.yorku.ca /yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=1033 (219 words)

	Marie-Claire Blais - Canadian Writers
		Blais was born in Québec City in 1939.
		While working, Blais took courses at Laval University, and it was there 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 [Mad Shadows].
		It was also in Wellfleet that Blais wrote Les Manuscrits de Pauline Archange [The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange] (1968-1970).
	www.collectionscanada.ca /writers/027005-1000-e.html (385 words)

	UMD Press Release Article - Press Releases - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
		April 1, 2002 Marie-Claire Blais, an award-winning writer from Quebec, will be guest speaker of the Boivin Center of French Language and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on Monday, April 22, at 4 p.m., in the Library's Browsing Area.
		Blais will read from and discuss several of her works at the free program.
		Blais is the recipient of the Prix MÃ©dicis, the Prix Belgo-Canadien, the Prix France-Quebec, and an inductee of the Royal Academy of Language and Literature of Belgium and The AcadÃ©mie des lettres du Quebec.
	www.umassd.edu /communications/articles/showarticles.cfm?a_key=102 (245 words)

	Used Book Central Search / author: marie claire blais
		Blais, Marie-Claire: Lester and Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1981, First Edition in English of the 1979 First Edition originally titled Le Sourd dans la Ville, Translated from the French by Carol Dunlop, Winner of the Govenor General's Award for Fiction, 9/10 in illu strated wrappers as issued.
		Blais, Marie-Claire: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1961, First Edition in English of the Institut Littéraire de Québec 1960 First Edition, Signed by the Author on the Half-Title Page, Translated from the French Charles Fullman, 8/10 in 7/10 dust wrapper, ve ry minor chipping to extremities.
		Blais, Marie-Claire: Éditions du Jour, Montréal, 1965, Eighth Impression of the First Edition, 7/10 in olive green and fl printed white wrappers with French flaps as issued, minor rubbing and creasing to extremities, pages slightly browning as is commo n with this title, ink name on first page.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,author,marie+claire+blais.html (751 words)

	Nuit Blanche
		Marie-Claire Blais a fait paraÃ®tre en mars 2005 Augustino et le chÅ“ur de la destruction, troisiÃšme volet d'une trilogie inaugurÃ©e avec Soifs (1995), Prix du Gouverneur gÃ©nÃ©ral, suivi de Dans la foudre et la lumiÃšre (2001).
		Une Å“uvre magistrale que Marie-Claire Blais, rencontrÃ©e au seuil du printemps, a commentÃ©e pour Nuit blanche.
		On a souvent qualifiÃ© l'Ã©criture de Marie-Claire Blais de polyphonique et nombreux sont ceux qui ont vu dans cette trilogie blaisienne une parfaite illustration de sa rhÃ©torique contrapuntique : il semble plutÃŽt que dans cet ample monologue intÃ©rieur s'Ã©panouit une musicalitÃ© Ã©purÃ©e qui n'est pas sans rappeler l'art de la monodie.
	www.nuitblanche.com /AfficherPage.aspx?idMenu=0&idPage=216 (2178 words)

	2000 International Festival of Authors: Marie-Claire Blais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		In 1960, Marie-Claire Blais, then a 20-year-old stenographer, scandalized Quebec readers with her groundbreaking novel about mental illness.
		Blais has published over 20 psychologically intense novels, which have been recognized with three Governor General’s Awards and the French Prix Medicis.
		The Exile and the Sacred Travellers is a blend of the satire, realism and mysticism that has made Blais an international favourite.
	www.readings.org /ifoa2000/blais.html (95 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		Marie-Claire Blais has described her subject as "Hiver moral, hiver physique." seasons of an inner and an outer world.
		These are drawn from contradictions in human relations and within man himself, from the opposed yet interdependent dualities of lady and spirit, pleasure and pain, virtue and vice.
		Marie-Claire Blais continually emphasizes the physical side of life and its coarseness, the rank smells and feelings which constitute the world of sensation.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol2_2/&filename=kertzer.htm (4970 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Marie-Claire Blais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Perhaps the best-known of Quebecois writers, born into a working-class family, Blais burst into the literary world at age 20 with the publication of her first novel, La belle bête (Mad Shadows, 1959).
		Blais and Meigs would eventually become lovers and Blais moved in Wellfleet with Meigs, Cape Cod, where she was living as a closeted lesbian with her long-term lover Barbara.
		For a while Blais, Meigs, and Deming were involved in a three-way relationship, which ended when Blais and Meigs moved to Brittany from Cape Cod, there to become involved in yet another three-way relationship with a French woman novelist.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biob3/blai2.html (247 words)

	Les Prix du Québec - la lauréate Marie-Claire Blais
		Mais au-delà de cette nuit du roman, selon l'expression de Marguerite Duras, ces ténèbres que les personnages de Marie-Claire Blais traversent avec angoisse et courage, il y a parfois la lumière et des lambeaux de tendresse, aussi fugaces soient-ils.
		Le regard que Marie-Claire Blais porte sur les folies de l'Amérique actuelle, en proie aux démences sociales et écologiques les plus absurdes, donne à ses œuvres récentes une qualité critique de première force.
		La reconnaissance internationale de l'œuvre de Marie-Claire Blais et l'universalité de son propos viennent à nouveau d'être confirmées par l'attribution, à Rome, en 1999, du Prix de l'Union latine et du prix Mitchell, décerné pour la première fois à Toronto en l'an 2000.
	www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca /recherche/desclaureat.asp?noLaureat=47 (294 words)

	AU-DELÀ DES APPARENCES — PORTRAIT DE MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS - FIFA
		Such figures as Margaret Atwood, Antonine Maillet, Jacques Crête and Marie Couillard testify to the power of her writing and the influence of her works on our time.
		Her brother Michel Blais and close friend Pauline Michel reveal more personal aspects of the writer, as well as the causes she holds dear.
		Born in Sudbury, Suzette Lagacé has a Master's degree in education from the Université de Montréal and diploma in theatre from the University of Ottawa.
	www.artfifa.com /en/par-titre/view-21.html (230 words)

	BLAIS Marie-Claire - Catalogue des traductions des membres du CEAD -
		Marie-Claire Blais, novelist, playwright and poet, has been an important figure in the French literary scene for more than thirty-five years.
		Marie-Claire Blais won several prestigious awards, including the Prix Médicis (France), and was decorated with the Order of Canada and the Ordre national du Québec and made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de France.
		« Excerpt from the soliloquy Marcelle by Marie-Claire Blais (A Clash of Symbols) MARCELLE : Poor Lise but why this need to mistrust life and worst of all this need to prove to yourself that you are the strongest, the stronger of the two.
	www.cead.qc.ca /eng/repw3/blaismarie-claire_eng.htm (1467 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wintersleep: Books: Marie-Claire Blais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Wintersleep (Sommeil d'hiver) is a collection of five short plays by internationally acclaimed Quebecois author, Marie-Claire Blais.
		Blais' drama, undergoing a new resurgence of interest, mostly in the U.S. of Miami., Washington, etc.,) is seeing increased performance in both English and French.
		WINTERSLEEP presents the unique shorter, or "chamber", plays of an intimacy and a subtlety that are unique and may suggest new directions for the modern theatre, especially for directors who are not afraid to blend different media and life-size puppets with live actors, and evoke fluid and shifting states of consciousness.
	www.amazon.ca /Wintersleep-Marie-Claire-Blais/dp/0921870604 (639 words)

	Banff Centre Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Blais has published twenty novels in Quebec and in France — all of which have been translated into English — as well as seven plays and four poetry collections.
		She wrote the screenplay Le Journal en images froides and contributed to the script of the documentary Tu as crié let me go by director Anne-Claire Poirier.
		She’s also a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature française de Belgique, the first Quebec author to be part of a European literary society.
	www.banffcentre.ca /press/contributors/abc/blais_m (151 words)

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