The directors anticipatéd follow-up tó ANTOINE was á critical and bóx-office disappointment.īut in thé early 1980s, when Canadian pay stations were eager to fill up their programming schedules, Jutra found an opportunity to re-cut (and especially lengthen) the film to his original intentions, and so this extended version did play on television to greater acclaim. Tobie Lolness Chapitre 19 Resume.The Directors cut of Kamouraska, which has been shown on Canadian television, runs 173 minutes. References īrian Busby, Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (2003) - ISBN9-8 Jutra and Hébert collaborated on the screenplay. In 1973 the novel was made into a film directed by Claude Jutra and starring Geneviève Bujold and Richard Jordan. The story is based on events surrounding the 1838 murder of Achille Taché, seigneur of Kamouraska, by George Holmes, an American doctor in love with Taché's wife, Josephte-Joséphine-Eléonore d'Estimauville. The book is used in many schools as a novel study. The narrative begins in the third person, but later switches to the viewpoint of Elisabeth telling her story in the first person. The story is told in a series of flashbacks. The narrative begins with Elisabeth beside the deathbed of her second husband, Jérôme Rolland, a notary.
Set in 19th century Quebec, it tells the story of a woman, Elisabeth D’Aulnières, who conspires with her lover, an American doctor, to kill her husband, the seigneur of Kamouraska. Written in French, the book has been translated into many languages. Kamouraska is a novel written by Anne Hébert and published in 1970. The mistress of Kamouraska and her double'. Critique de la litterature quebecoise au Canada anglais', EF. Chapter on 'Quebec and French Canada' (57-99).
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