American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey
American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Linda Gaboriau
English | October 29, 1996 | ISBN: 0889223580, 9780889229648 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.8 MB
English | October 29, 1996 | ISBN: 0889223580, 9780889229648 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.8 MB
It is the spring of 1963. The young Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais, bursting with energy and talent, has just won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship. She chooses Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the place where she will begin her writer’s apprenticeship with her mentor, Edmund Wilson.
American Notebooks is much more than a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer. An album of exquisitely drawn literary portraits of companions, intellectuals, writers, musicians, artists and social activists of the period―Edmund and Elena Wilson; Mary Meigs; Maud Maugan; Barbara Deming; Truman Capote; Jacques Hébert, her first Quebec publisher, then senator; and many others―it also introduces many of the real life personalities who have inspired her fictional characters.