Marie-Claire Blais and Dostoevsky: Observations from the Notebooks
| Autor: | Oriel C. L. Maclennan, John A. Barnstead |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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| Zdroj: | Canadian Slavonic Papers. 46:381-400 |
| ISSN: | 2375-2475 0008-5006 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00085006.2004.11092365 |
| Popis: | This article demonstrates the pervasive presence of Dostoevsky in the oeuvre of Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais—three-time winner of the Governor-General’s Award for literature—through analysis of her working notebooks and individual novels. Blais’ thirteen working notebooks (1962–1974) contain one hundred eighty references to works and characters in Russian literature, some sixty of which relate to Dostoevsky. Analysis of these references shows that Blais throughout her formative years studied Dostoevsky rigorously and thoroughly. Using the seven mentions of Alyosha from The Brothers Karamazov as a starting point, we examine Blais’ creation of a series of Alyosha-figures in Un Joualonais sa Joualonie (1973), Visions d’Anna, ou le vertige (1982), and Dans la foudre et la lumiere (2001), each representing a possible alternative development of the character-type. The theme of innocent suffering (Ivan Karamazov’s “the single tear of a child”) is traced in David Sterne (1967), Un Joualonais sa Joua... |
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