Marie-Claire Blais was an acclaimed French-Canadian author known for books including “Une Saison Dans la Vie d’Emmanuel” (“A Season in the Life of Emmanuel”)Blais published her first novel when she was only 20, in 1959. “Le Belle Bête” (“The Beautiful Beast”) established her reputation as a writer, and she followed it with more than 50 other books over a long and celebrated career.
Blais became known for her unusual prose style, including sentences that could go on for dozens of pages, dialogue dropped into the narrative without quotation marks, and entire books written as stream-of-consciousness.
She was widely honored as one of Canada’s greatest contemporary authors, winning four prestigious Governor’s General Literary Awards.
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