The angel of solitude
By: Marie-Claire Blais (1939-2021) ; translated by Laura Hodes.
Contributors: Hodes, Laura.
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Lesbians -- Fiction.; Utopias -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The Angel of Solitude presides over the lives of eight young lesbian women who strive to achieve an all-female utopia within which homophobia, their pasts and their differences are abolished. As the narrative unfolds, we realize that none of the women are present directly - they come into being, and live their lives, only in and through the memories, observations and imaginations of each of the others.

Thus, their mission to establish a fortress for themselves remains inconclusive; they have too much to overcome, both within themselves and in the world at large, to abandon their individual struggles for the sake of the group.