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The Execution

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais

translated by David Lobdell

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Jan 1976
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889221031
    Publish Date
    Jan 1976
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

The Execution is Marie-Claire Blais’s only play for the stage. Set in a boarding school, it tells the story of two schoolboys who plot the murder of one of their classmates and enact the crime. As a play, it is a study of innocence, evil and complicity, themes well-known to readers of Blais’s fiction.

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.

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David Lobdell is a Canadian translator of Québec fiction and is especially known for his translation of Dürer’s Angel by Marie-Claire Blais.

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Editorial Reviews

“A brilliant play about the maturation of evil.”
CHQM

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