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family and moved to France where she lived until 1931. In 1940, Bosco spent a year In Saint-Brieuc, then took refuge in
Marseilles, where she hid and ceased going to school. In 1948 she emigrated to Montreal to join her father. There, she resumed her studies. Bosco enrolled at the University of
129:(1977), despite the banality of its title and the familiarity of the situation it depicts (it is the monologue of a dying man), is a compassionate and subtle work, the confession of a weak man who is bound to his wife and convention through some fundamental lack of energy.
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takes on the biblical story of Sarah, casts it in France during the Second World War, and presents it from a first-person perspective in a lyrical, biblical style that expresses profound rage at male-dominant gender values.
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Bosco's work is described as singular, intense, and full of characters who carry the weight of their lives. Several of her works transpose classic figures from Greek tragedy into a contemporary Quebec context (such as
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the poetic-prose style of recurrent waves of words and phrases combines with mixing of mythological and historical figures, literatures, and modern references to create a demystification of patriarchal values.
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125:(1974) takes this rage to an even higher pitch, not quite succeeding in making convincing either Medea or her enormous act, but inspiring respect for the strength of her obsession.
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Bosco's novels share similar themes—de/racination, the alienated female body, solitude and bitterness—but increase in their intensity of lamentation and rage from the lyrical
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depicts the condensed fluidity of its characters' perspectives during a family reunion—half of them are bourgeois Québécois and the others are working-class Italo-Canadians.
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547:(in French). Académie des lettres du Québec.
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