Mademoiselle Blais is in many ways a naturalist, and the word quite properly recalls Zola…. Her characters and situations, with but few exceptions, are hateful, perverse and repulsive. No crime, no meanness, no indecent thought, no deliberate breaking of the Ten Commandments are alien to her characters young or old, male or female. (p. 11)

Mademoiselle Blais' art is as shocking as Zola's or the films used as evidence in the Nuremburg trials. And unlike Zola no remedy [for society's ills] is implied….

In her view love between men and women does not necessarily lead to happiness. The family, at its worst, is little more than a factory for producing unwanted and frightful children…. Education is in the hands of the church, whose representatives are corrupt, sinful, and self seeking. It is an apprenticeship in vice, and a time of malnutrition, sadism, and boredom. Nothing that is taught has...