Annunciation (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: David Plante
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: England, New York, Italy, and Russia
- Principal Characters: Claire O’Connel, Rachel O’Connel, Claude Ricard, Maurice Kuragin, Sir Roger Leclerc
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Suicide, Art or artists, Rape, Christianity, Allegory, Catholics or Catholic Church
- Locales: New York, England, Italy, Russia
David Plante is interested in the concrete details of daily life but also in the unknowable darkness that surrounds them. Brought up Catholic in Rhode Island by a Quebeçois family, he has, in thirteen novels, detailed a consciousness more than a world. A sense of detachment and dislocation permeates every tale he tells. His first novel was entitled The Ghost of Henry James (1970), and he labored under that writer’s influence for his first five books. Then, in the Francoeur Trilogy, Plante turned his eye toward his family and found his own spare, dark, abstract voice. That...
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