Human

Signing her texts as Aude, the fiction of Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot borders on psychopathological tragedy.

All her characters – and this is especially true of her new work, Human – are intensely alive with the struggle between the body and its inner being, a struggle in which there is hope, but hope in its fragility as the body betrays the spirit. To ward off betrayal, we keep a silence and it is that silence that Human explores. Aude is the most singular writer to emerge in Quebec since Marie-Claire Blais.

Born in Montreal in 1947, Aude has lived near Quebec City since 1971. She has published two novels, four collections of short fiction, and two children’s story books. Aude is the winner of the 1997 Governor General’ss award and the 1999 Grand Prix des lectrices