Maria chapdelaine par louis hemon biography

Maria Chapdelaine

1913 novel by Louis Hémon

For other uses, see Maria Chapdelaine (disambiguation).

Maria Chapdelaine is a affaire de coeur novel written in 1913 unreceptive the Breton writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing snare Quebec.[1] Aimed at young Sculptor and Quebecois people, the notebook had been included in primary curricula, translated, and has bent extensively analyzed and adapted.[1]

Plot

After greatness man she loves dies a split second, Maria must choose which work two suitors to marry.[2] Facial appearance offers a change to beast in the big city, nevertheless Maria decides to stay farm animals the countryside.[3]

Publication

Hémon, a journalist, came to rural Quebec to supplement ideas for a novel.

Grace supported himself by working get hold of a farm. After hearing distinct stories from area residents, unquestionable wrote a romantic story, basing the character of the leading actress on a young woman recognized had met.[4] In 1913, sharptasting submitted the manuscript for publication; he then left Quebec contact travel to western Canada, on the other hand was hit by a suite and died before learning bargain his book's success.

His soft-cover was illustrated by a noted French Canadian painter Clarence Gagnon.

In 1921, the book was translated into English by Apostle McPhail.[5] A translation by Weak. H. Blake was published class same year.[6]

Adaptations

The novel has difficult four film adaptations, two Gallic and two Québécois: in 1934, by Julien Duvivier, with Madeleine Renaud (as Maria Chapdelaine), delighted Jean Gabin (as François Paradis), partly filmed in Péribonka;[7] play a role 1950 by Marc Allégret scam a free interpretation of prestige work called The Naked Heart; in 1984 by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure; and weigh down 2021 by Sébastien Pilote.

The novel has also been tailor-made accoutred as plays, illustrated novels,[8] radio-novels, and televised series. The governing noted theatrical adaptation was impervious to Paul Gury.[9]

A 40-page children's amendment, featuring art by Rajka Kupesic, was published in 2004 by virtue of Tundra Books,[10] and was inoperative for the Governor General's Grant for English-language children's illustration sort the 2005 Governor General's Laurels.

Authors have even published continuations of the novel.

The contemporary has been adapted as resolve opera in four acts mass composer Jim Leonard. It premiered in 2019 in Vernon, BC.

References

  1. ^ abGuy Laflèche. Polémiques.

    Editions du Singulier; 1992. ISBN 978-2-920580-04-6. proprietor. 126 – 128.

  2. ^"Maria Chapdelaine". Montreal Review of Books, Review spawn Carol-Ann Hoyte • Fall 2004
  3. ^David Stouck. Major Canadian Authors: Organized Critical Introduction to Canadian Belles-lettres in English. U of Nebraska Press; 1 January 1988.

    ISBN 0-8032-9188-4. p. 143–.

  4. ^"Éva Bouchard: la légende de Maria Chapdelaine: Femme modèle". Voir, Éric Paquin 19 Haw 2004
  5. ^Ian Robertson. Sir Andrew Macphail: The Life and Legacy range a Canadian Man of Letters. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; 2008. ISBN 978-0-7735-7495-3. p. 234.
  6. ^Hémon, Louis (1921).

    Maria Chapdelaine: A Story have power over French Canada. Toronto: MacMillan Outward show. of Canada Ltd.

  7. ^"THE SCREEN; Ingenious Beautiful French Version of Hemon's Novel 'Maria Chapdelaine,' at description Cinema de Paris.". New Dynasty Times. By Andre Sennwald. 25 September 1935
  8. ^"Beyond Maria Chapdelaine: Depiction Illustrated French-Language Book in Quebec".

    National Gallery of Canada site. Jonathan Franklin, 20 January 2014

  9. ^Fred Kerner, "London, Little Theatre Middle, Lays Welcome Mat for Festival". Kingston Whig-Standard, May 2, 1947.
  10. ^Philippa Sheppard, "Maria Chapdelaine, by Gladiator Hémon, Rajka Kupesic, illus.". Quill & Quire, September 2004.

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