Dürer's Angel
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1976
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889221116
- Publish Date
- Jan 1976
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
This is Marie-Claire Blais’s third novel in the trilogy of Pauline Archange.
About the authors
Born in 1939 in Québec, Marie-Claire Blais continues to dominate the literary landscape. Having published her first novel at the age of twenty, she has gone on to publish twenty novels to date in France and Quebec—all of which have been translated into English—as well as five plays and several collections of poetry. All of her writings have met with international acclaim.Talon has published her American Notebooks, a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer.Winner of the Prix Médicis, the Prix Belgo-Canadien, the Prix France-Québec, and many others, Blais continues to devote herself to work that is proud and exacting. Most recently, she has been invited, as one of the very few foreigners allowed, to join Belgium’s Academy of French Language and Literature.
Marie-Claire Blais' profile page
David Lobdell is a Canadian translator of Québec fiction and is especially known for his translation of Dürer’s Angel by Marie-Claire Blais.
Editorial Reviews
“A writer who stand head and shoulders above her contemporaries.”
— Globe & Mail
