The fourth and most acclaimed of Desjardins' novels creates a sensual and exotic world combining history, magic, and the bizarre. Martine Desjardins delivers to readers of Maleficium the unexpurgated revelations of Vicar Jerome Savoie, a heretic priest in nineteenth century Montreal. Maleficium: Author: Martine Desjardins: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng. ) Length: pages: Original in: French: Availability: Maleficium - US: Maleficium - UK: Maleficium - Canada: Maleficium - Canada (French) Maleficium - India: Maleficium - FranceAuthor: Martine Desjardins. Written by Martine Desjardins and translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Maleficium has a structure that is simple and repetitive: seven sinners visit a Montreal vicar and, under the sacramental protection of confession, each tells a story so compelling that it moves the vicar to the unpardonable sin of writing them down. It’s the end of the 19th century.
Maleficium by Martine Desjardins, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Maleficium. by Martine Desjardins; Fred A. Reed and David Homel, trans. Questions of memory and truth also take centre stage in Quebec author Martine Desjardins's fourth book, www.doorway.rur translation from the French, with a plot that shuttles between Montreal and the other side of the world, Maleficium plays on personal histories and takes an adventurous turn toward the bizarre. Then author Martine Desjardins's Vicar Savoieas in any confession worth its communion wafersaves the best (or worst) for last. Maleficium won the Prix Jacques Brossard and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award (French Fiction), the Prix des libraires du Québec, the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie, and the.
Maleficium: Author: Martine Desjardins: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng. ) Length: pages: Original in: French: Availability: Maleficium - US: Maleficium - UK: Maleficium - Canada: Maleficium - Canada (French) Maleficium - India: Maleficium - France. Written by Martine Desjardins and translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Maleficium has a structure that is simple and repetitive: seven sinners visit a Montreal vicar and, under the sacramental protection of confession, each tells a story so compelling that it moves the vicar to the unpardonable sin of writing them down. It’s the end of the 19th century. Martine Desjardins delivers to readers of Maleficium the unexpurgated revelations of Vicar Jerome Savoie, a heretic priest in nineteenth century Montreal. Braving threats from the Catholic Church, Savoie dares to violate the sanctity of the confessional in this confession-within-a-confession, in which seven penitents, each afflicted with a debilitating malady or struck with a crippling deformity, relates his encounter with an enigmatic young woman whose lips bear a striking scar.
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