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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. 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; in its themes of moral and sexual transgression, the novel is part of the anti-terroir tradition in Quebec literature.

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  • 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. 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; 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. (en)
  • Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel est un roman québécois de Marie-Claire Blais publié en 1965 au Canada et en 1966 en France où il reçut la même année le prix Médicis. (fr)
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  • First US English-language edition (en)
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  • Canada (en)
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  • 1966 (xsd:integer)
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  • French (en)
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  • A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (en)
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  • 1965 (xsd:integer)
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  • Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (en)
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  • Derek Coltman (en)
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  • Farrar, Straus and Giroux(US)
  • Grasset (France)
  • Jonathan Cape(UK)
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  • Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel est un roman québécois de Marie-Claire Blais publié en 1965 au Canada et en 1966 en France où il reçut la même année le prix Médicis. (fr)
  • 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. 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; in its themes of moral and sexual transgression, the novel is part of the anti-terroir tradition in Quebec literature. (en)
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  • A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (en)
  • Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (fr)
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