Anne Hébert, Kamouraska

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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

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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 and affective universe, only tackling historical and social contexts throughout the protagonists’ singular experience” [“décrit l’univers sensoriel…

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Citation: Pascal, Marie. "Kamouraska". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 July 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35854, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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