Éditions du Boréal has announced the publication on September 27 of a novel by Marie-Claire Blais, who died last November. Augustino or enlightenment revives the character of Augustino, who we saw for the last time in Birth of Rebecca in the Age of Tormentthe fourth part of the cycle Thirstypublished in 2008.
Augustino or enlightenment constitutes a long fragment of the text on which Marie-Claire Blais was working when she died. We find the writer Augustino in the middle of leprosy people, in India, while he himself is suffering from a form of leprosy of an unknown nature. He remembers the fate of his ancestors who died tragically in death camps.
According to Éditions du Boréal, these pages which will be the last of the cycle Thirsty are among the most beautiful and deepest of all the work of the great novelist.
Recall that Marie-Claire Blais died on November 30 in Key West, Florida, where she had taken up residence for several years. The death of the prolific and multiple award-winning author was mourned among others by the literary community, in particular by Michel Tremblay who described the novelist as literary genius.
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