Anne Hébert, Kamouraska

Marie Pascal

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1970

Places

Canada (Country of Origin)
France (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Now considered to be Anne Hébert’s masterpiece, Kamouraska was published in 1970, translated into English in 1973 by Norman Shapiro and adapted to screen that same year by Claude Jutra, one of Québec’s most famous film directors. Commenting on the novel, the contributors to Histoire de la littérature québécoise observe that Hébert “absorbs the individual, not so much into what affirms his identity, but through what perverts and alienates it” [“absorbe l’individu non par ce qui lui assure une identité, mais par ce qui le pervertit et l’aliène”] (2007: 315), and that she “describes the characters’ sensorial …

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Citation: Pascal, Marie. "Kamouraska". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 July 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35854, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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