Next Episode

Next Episode (French: Prochain épisode) is the debut novel by French Canadian author Hubert Aquin, published in 1965.

First edition
(publ. Le Cercle Du Livre De France, Ottawa, 1965)

Plot summary

The narrator, like Aquin himself, turns his adventures into a spy thriller to while away the time he is forced to spend in the psychiatric ward of a Montreal prison, where he is awaiting a trial for an unspecified revolutionary crime. The novel was translated by Penny Williams in 1967, and later again by Sheila Fischman.

Perspective

Narrated in first person by unnamed narrator

Significance

Served as a response to suggestions of cultural fatigue among French Canadian artists

Recognition

Prochain épisode (in its English translation by Sheila Fischman, Next Episode) was selected for the 2003 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by journalist Denise Bombardier. It was the winning title.

gollark: What do you mean "wreck everything"? If you mean that it somehow automagically™ ruins arbitrary computer systems then I really doubt this.

gollark: I can't see anything suggesting that anyone has worked around the "yes, log me in" button.

gollark: I am *also* checking online articles on the QR code phishing thing.

gollark: I'm in... 50 or so?

gollark: I would have to look at the actual QR code being used in the attack to see if there is a different issue, but I generally assume that people aren't entirely idiots all the time.

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