[Soifs 04] • Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom

[Soifs 04] • Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom
Authors
Blais, Claire
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
ISBN
9780887848254
Date
2008-04-22T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.26 MB
Lang
en
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With this astounding fourth novel in her ongoing series of contemporary masterpieces, Marie-Claire Blais invites us again to enter a complex circle of unforgettable characters. But this time, the tone is different: Blais’ writing has acquired a new, buoyant, electrifying rhythm — a rhythm described as "the heartbeat of the world." As we follow a central character named Rebecca, the voice in the novel becomes the voice of the world inventing itself, and the future playing itself out. Here Nigel Spencer, Marie-Claire Blais’ longtime translator, gives us Blais’ singular vision in supple English prose that is as transcendent and nuanced as the original French.