Kamouraska (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Hebert
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Plot: Stream of consciousness
- Time of Work: 1820-1860
- Setting: Quebec Province, Canada
- Principal Characters: Elisabeth d’Aulnières, Dr. George Nelson, Antoine Tassy, Aurélie Caron, Jérôme Rolland, Adélaïde, Luce-Gertrude, Angélique Lanouette, Mme Caroline Tassy
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance
- Locales: Quebec, Canada
The Novel
Kamouraska presents the psychological drama of Elisabeth d’Aulnières in a series a flashbacks spanning some forty years. As Hébert herself states on the copyright page, she based her novel of passion and murder on real people and historical events of the 1830’s in Sorel and Kamouraska, in the Quebec Province of French Canada.
As she nurses Jérôme Rolland, her dying husband, the first-person narrator-heroine reveals her mysterious past during a horrifying night of alternating insomnia and drug-induced sleep. Her story jumps back and forth from...
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