The cover page is adapted from A Quebec Village in Winter, a painting completed in 1920 by Clarence Gagnon. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Gagnonwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Maria Chapdelaine
章节(16)
- I: Peribonka 0:00
- II: Home in the Clearing 27:39
- III: François Passes By 45:59
- IV: Wild Land 59:00
- V: The Vows 1:16:57
- VI: The Stuff of Dreams 1:46:11
- VII: A Meager Reaping 2:00:27
- VIII: Entrenched Against Winter 2:05:12
- IX: One Thousand Aves 2:14:49
- X: Straying Tracks 2:34:22
- XI: The Interpreter of God 2:56:04
- XII: Love Bearing Gifts 3:07:37
- XIII: Love Bearing Chains 3:36:19
- XIV: Into the Deep Silence 3:51:01
- XV: That We Perish Not 4:28:06
- XVI: Pledged to the Race 5:02:24
It takes a hardy people to survive farming the harsh lands of the French Canadian wilderness, and Maria Chapdelaine must choose either to remain Québécois in this unforgiving land that has broken her heart, or to pursue a softer urban life in foreign New England.
French writer Louis Hémon wrote Maria Chapdelaine during the two years he lived in Quebec, and it’s based on his experiences working on a farm in the Lac Saint-Jean region where the novel is set. It was his only work published in his lifetime, as he died in a tragic train accident before learning of its success.
The novel is described as a masterwork that was Canada’s entry into world literature and Quebec’s introduction to the rest of the Francophone world. An enduring work, it has served as the basis of four movies, and has been adapted into plays, an illustrated novel, a radio novel, a television series, and an opera.