In the Shadow of the Wind (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Hebert
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Teenagers, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Murder or homicide, 1930’s, 1980’s, Obsession, Rape, Canada or Canadians, Sea or seafaring life, French Canadians
- Locales: Quebec, Canada, Griffin Creek (fictive)
In structure, Les Fous de Bassan (In the Shadow of the Wind, 1983) marked a new departure for Anne Hébert. Drawing on her reading of the American novelist William Faulkner, and especially of his novel The Sound and the Fury (1929), Hébert utilizes a number of speakers to tell her story, including the mentally defective Percival Brown, who was clearly inspired by the character Benjy in Faulkner's novel.
In the Shadow of the Wind is also unlike Hébert's other novels in that the orientation of the characters is British, rather than French. Though her...
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