''A Season in the Life of Emmanuel'' (french: Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel) is a

French Canadian French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the twentieth century; french: Canadiens français, ; feminine form: , ), or Franco-Canadians (french: Franco-Canadiens), refers to either an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to Fren ...

novel by

Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspa ...

, published in 1965."Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel"
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. The novel centres on a large rural farm family in Quebec headed by domineering matriarch Antoinette, and depicts their lives around the time of the birth of Emmanuel, the family's sixteenth child. 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;"Nouveau Roman Made Easy"
. ''Canadian Literature'' (Volume 31), Winter 1967. 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

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in 1972.

Awards

The novel won the

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and the Prix Jean-Hamelin in 1976. The novel was selected for the 2008 edition of ''

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'', in which it was defended by actor and director

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References

1965 Canadian novels Canadian novels adapted into films Novels by Marie-Claire Blais New Canadian Library 1960s LGBT novels {{Canada-novel-stub