Several of her works transpose classic figures from Greek tragedy into a contemporary Quebec context (such as New Medea, 1974; and Portrait de Zeus peint par Minerve, 1982).
[4] Themes of solitude and incommunication are prevalent and Monique Bosco systematically presented, in works that combined prose and poetry, the "divided beings of the world" - according to the expression of essayist Paulette Collet - suffering from painful feelings of isolation, rejection, rebellion and guilt.
[5] Bosco's novels share similar themes—de/racination, the alienated female body, solitude and bitterness—but increase in their intensity of lamentation and rage from the lyrical Un amour maladroit (1961) and Les infusoires(1965) to La femme de Loth (1970).
[3] The following novels, Portrait de Zeus peinte par Minerve (1982) and Sara Sage (1986), make use of tragic classical and biblical myths, but are more developed structurally and linguistically.
In Portrait de Zeus the poetic-prose style of recurrent waves of words and phrases combines with mixing of mythological and historical figures, literatures, and modern references to create a demystification of patriarchal values.
Le jeu de sept familles depicts the condensed fluidity of its characters' perspectives during a family reunion—half of them are bourgeois Québécois and the others are working-class Italo-Canadians.