A Season in The Life of Emmanuel, introduced by Edmund Wilson
Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness that emerged in the 1960s known as the quiet revolution. The story of Emmanuel and his 15 brothers and sisters spotlights the grinding poverty under...
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Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness that emerged in the 1960s known as the quiet revolution. The story of Emmanuel and his 15 brothers and sisters spotlights the grinding poverty under the mental regime of the Catholic Church at its least enlightened and most inescapable. This insightful narrative documents the hardships and cruelties of their social condition with dark humor and passionate imagination as they endeavor to survive harsh schools, dreary convents, and hunger.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
1550961187
Publish date: 1966
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Edition language: English
One word: bleak. All right, this book deserves more than one word. It is very much of its time (a 1960s description of, and attack on, pre-Quiet Revolution rural life in Quebec, nasty, brutal, and Church-dominated), but it also has a poetry about it. That's particularly true in the inset autobiogr...
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