Gillian Davies

The Umbrella Pines, like the three generations it chronicles, is divided into three parts, the first of which is prefaced by a quotation from George Trakl: One evening, they discovered that the father was an old man."

Winner of the Governer General's Award for 1978 and of the Prix La Presse, Jaques Poulin is translated for the first time into English in the Jimmy Trilogy.

Rajic's first novel begins lyrically, continues on a note increasing menace that degenerates into tedium, and ends ambiguously.

The Garden of Delights, Roch Carrier, trans. Sheila Fischman, Anansi, 1978.

What follows is really a review of the wrong novel by Antoine Maillet.

The back cover of the fugitive indicates, rightly, that Marie-Claire Blais is concerned with "The difference between outward appearances and inner truth."

In spite of its disclaimers, between Cross and Indians seems at first sight to be a derivative and self-conscious exercise in the essential futility of literature.

Of all contemporary quebecois novelists, Marie-Claire Blais is probably the most frequently translated and the most widely known beyond Quebec.

The Madman the Kits and the island, Felix Leclerc, trans. Philip Statford. Oberon, 1976.

Jacques Ferron is a medical doctor, writer, polemicist and political figure