The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange (Exile Classics series)

Marie-Claire Blais, Derek Coltman (Translated by), David Lobdell (Translated by), Barry Callaghan (Introduction by)

$26.34

Publication Date: February 25th, 2010

Publisher:

Exile Editions

ISBN:

9781550961317

Pages:

320

Description

Pauline tells her personal story of growing up through paradoxes and insights that blend social, religious, and moral textures. Her world is populated by people who turn to violence or sink into quiet despair—it is a world damned. Pauline, her family, schoolmates, teachers, and friends are driven by tempestuous individual imperatives and the social deprivation they encounter. Full of satire, fantasy, energy, and lyricism, this chronicle portrays a reality that neither poetry, nor dreams, nor Pauline’s fantasies can weaken.

About the Author

Marie-Claire Blais is one of Canada's best-known authors whose books include Deaf to the City, Thunder and Light, and Wintersleep. She has received a wide variety of national and international prizes, including Prix France-Canada, Prix Athanase-David, Governor General's Literary Award, the W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize, Prix Médicis, Prix d'Italie, and Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco. She lives in Key West, Florida. Derek Coltman has worked as a translator for more than five decades and has translated many of the most recognized contemporary French authors. David Lobdell has worked as a translator of French into English since the 1970s. Barry Callaghan is a journalist, a poet, a fiction writer, and an anthologist. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.