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Marc Koralnik |
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SOIFS
Published in 1995 and recently translated in German, critics around the world hailed it as a tour de force, comparing Marie-Claire Blais with such literary greats as Virginia Woolf, Dante, Sophocles, and Shakespeare. 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. Over the course of three days and three nights a flock of characters assembles: wealthy, poor, writers, artists facing their own mortality, children immersed in innocent games, young men dying of Aids, refugees, the Ku Klux Klanan 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.
Marie-Claire Blais is the internationally revered author of more than thirty books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she has won four times, Blais has been awarded the Médicis Prize, Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco Prize, the Molson Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships. She lives in Key West.
One of the most distinctive and original living writers of fiction. The New Yorker (2019)
A Coup de foudre. The discovery of the year! Kulturzeit (2020)
The novel is visceral; it is felt as well as imagined. Blais's prose creates a physical stirring, messes with balance, upends, and spreads, circling and expanding, vertiginous and propulsive. Novelist Lisa Moore
Rarely has a novel stuck as perfectly to its time as the Soifs offered by Marie-Claire Blais. Libération
Broad music and a magnificent breath of an inexhaustible phrase. Le Point
It's a book that we finish reluctantly and with a deep sense of gratitude for the characters who, like the heroes of Sophocles and Shakespeare, are the messengers of a hidden truth of fundamental concern to the human heart. Magazine Littéraire
Blais has modestly, generously, written The Divine Comedy of our time. Le Devoir
A monumental, visionary, essential work. Voir
Marie-Claire Blais is the internationally revered author of more than thirty books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she has won four times, Blais has been awarded the Médicis Prize, Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco Prize, the Molson Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships. She lives in Key West.
One of the most distinctive and original living writers of fiction. The New Yorker (2019)
A Coup de foudre. The discovery of the year! Kulturzeit (2020)
The novel is visceral; it is felt as well as imagined. Blais's prose creates a physical stirring, messes with balance, upends, and spreads, circling and expanding, vertiginous and propulsive. Novelist Lisa Moore
Rarely has a novel stuck as perfectly to its time as the Soifs offered by Marie-Claire Blais. Libération
Broad music and a magnificent breath of an inexhaustible phrase. Le Point
It's a book that we finish reluctantly and with a deep sense of gratitude for the characters who, like the heroes of Sophocles and Shakespeare, are the messengers of a hidden truth of fundamental concern to the human heart. Magazine Littéraire
Blais has modestly, generously, written The Divine Comedy of our time. Le Devoir
A monumental, visionary, essential work. Voir
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