Anne Hébert (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
In addition to her novels, Anne Hébert explored the forms of poetry, short story, and drama. While the novels, for the most part, have been works of her mature years, the poems and stories began appearing simultaneously in magazines and newspapers when the author was in her early twenties. These early poetic works are gathered in Les Songes en équilibre (1942), whose themes and short line free verse prefigure the more successful Le Tombeau des rois (1953; The Tomb of the Kings, 1967) and Le Torrent, (1950, 1963, 1965; The...
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