At the end of The Tempest, Prospero drowns his books and buries his staff after orchestrating a storm to bring his enemies together on an island. He renounces his magic. Like Shakespeare’s metafictional farewell to the power of art, the final entry in Marie-Claire Blais’s Soifs cycle, the last book she completed before her death in…
Sophia Ohler
Sophia Ohler reads and writes in Vancouver. She asks that you please give her a job.