A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (French: Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel) is a French Canadian novel by Marie-Claire Blais, published in 1965.[1]
 First US English-language edition | |
| Author | Marie-Claire Blais |
|---|---|
| Original title | Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel |
| Translator | Derek Coltman |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Grasset (France) Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) Jonathan Cape (UK) |
Publication date | 1965 |
Published in English | 1966 |
The novel centres on a large rural farm family in Quebec headed by domineering matriarch Antoinette,[1] and depicts their lives around the time of the birth of Emmanuel, the family's sixteenth child.[1] The novel focuses primarily on Emmanuel's teenage siblings Pomme, Héloïse, "Septième" (Fortuné-Mathias) and Jean-Le Maigre, who are all in some state of rebellion against the family order;[2] in its themes of moral and sexual transgression, the novel is part of the anti-terroir tradition in Quebec literature.
The novel was adapted for film by director Claude Weisz in 1972.
Awards
The novel won the Prix Médicis and the Prix Jean-Hamelin in 1976.
The novel was selected for the 2008 edition of Le Combat des livres, in which it was defended by actor and director Serge Denoncourt.
References
- "Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel" at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- "Nouveau Roman Made Easy" Archived February 25, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Canadian Literature (Volume 31), Winter 1967.