Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country
Louis Hémon
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A farm at the edge of the forest north of Lake St John, cleared by hand from the bush; three men want Maria, and the winter decides. Hémon came from France at thirty-one, worked as a farmhand in this country, wrote the book in a year and was killed by a train at thirty-two, before it was published. It became the national novel of French Canada, and the voice of the land at the end is not a metaphor. Fifty-six plates of northern forest painting, from Munch to Gallen-Kallela, give the bush and the winter the same weight they carry in the story.
A farm at the edge of the forest north of Lake St John, cleared by hand from the bush; three men want Maria, and the winter decides. Hémon came from France at thirty-one, worked as a farmhand in this country, wrote the book in a year and was killed by a train at thirty-two, before it was publishe...
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Louis Hémon was a French writer who emigrated to Canada at thirty-one, worked as a farmhand in the Lake St. John country of Quebec, and wrote Maria Chapdelaine from what he saw there. He posted the manuscript to Paris and was killed by a train in Ontario the following year, at thirty-two, never knowing that the book would become the classic novel of French Canada.
Louis Hémon was a French writer who emigrated to Canada at thirty-one, worked as a farmhand in the Lake St. John country of Quebec, and wrote Maria Chapdelaine from what he saw there. He posted the manuscript to Paris and was killed by a train in Ontario the following year, at thirty-two, never k...
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