Héloïse (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Hébert
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Gothic fiction, Vampire fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Paris, Good and evil, Apartment houses, Railroads, Vampires
- Locales: Paris, France
Héloïse is a gothic tale. In it, the author builds up to the situation human beings fear most: the defeat of good by evil. The author cleverly intensifies the horror of her story by using a coldly indifferent observer as the narrator. The effect is also heightened by the fact that the novel is set primarily in two enclosed places. One of them is the sinister, unoccupied apartment described in the short first chapter. The other is the Paris metro system, with its network of underground passages.
As the second chapter begins, two young lovers, Christine and Bernard, are...
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