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It takes a hardy people to survive farming the harsh lands of the French Canadian wilderness, and Maria Chapdelaine must choose either to remain Québécois in this unforgiving land that has broken her heart, or to pursue a softer urban life in foreign New England. French writer Louis Hémon wrote Maria Chapdelaine during the two years he lived in Quebec, and it's based on his experiences working on a farm in the Lac Saint-Jean region where the novel is set.
It was his only work published in his lifetime, as he died in a tragic train accident before learning of its success. The novel is described as a masterwork that was Canada's entry into world literature and Quebec's introduction to the rest of the Francophone world. An enduring work, it has served as the basis of four movies, and has been adapted into plays, an illustrated novel, a radio novel, a television series, and an opera.
Une référence sur le Canada
Il y a plusieurs lectures possibles de Maria Chapdelaine. Soit c'est un très beau roman sur le Québec et la vie de gens simples. Soit c'est le portrait effarant de gens tellement abrutis par l'ignorance l'isolement l'alcool la religion et les ambitions frustrées, que la grosse Maria fini par trouver dans la mort de sa mère l'issue d'une jeunesse sans fard et la perspective d'un mariage sans ambition, renouvelant la routine quasi abrutie qui est le quotidien décrit par Hémon, entre maringouins et chaleur brulante du bref été, et les longs mois d'hiver où le monde se fige.
Formidable ouvrage à lectures multiples, très bien écrit.