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Marie-Claire Blais: Manuscript Gallery (continued)

Visions d'Anna ou le vertige: Evolution of a text (page 5 of 6)

Typescript sequence

This sequence of typescripts shows the many revisions that can occur for each page of a work. It also shows Blais' unconventional method of revision. Rather than revising a complete typescript and then retyping the work, Blais would revise page by page, retyping the page with each revision.

Source		Source
Page 23		Page 24

Source		Source
First version of page 25		Early version of page 25

Source		Source
Fourth version of page 25		Sixth version of page 25

Source		Source
Early and radically revised version of page 27		Second revision of page 27

Source		Source
Eighth version of page 27		Late revision to page 27

Source		Source
First version of page 29		Second version of page 29