What are the five Quebec literary classics in recent years?

Quebec literature has experienced flourishing years lately. But are there essential books in those who have seemed since 2020? The lover of literature and teacher at the Cégep de Sherbrooke Félix Morin reveals his record.

The selection criteria are as follows: general reception, price won, craze, subjectivity and impact. The books are classified in order of publication.

There are two things for me that corrupt reading today. It is snobbery and guilt, “you must have read that”. There is nothing that you must read and if you don’t like something that everyone likes, it’s correctunderlines at the outset Mr. Morin.

Where I go earthCaroline Dawson (2020)

This first book, according to Mr. Morin, is increasingly imposed as a classic Quebecois. Several books refer to it in recent years.

Caroline Dawson tells her arrival in Canada there at the age of seven, she who was born in Chile, then her new life until she became an adult.

Caroline Dawson is the eruption, in our literature, of a category of immigration that we did not see before. She appears, she calls her name, she calls her own issues and also, she says “I am a Quebecer”.

Mille secrets mille dangersAlain Farah (2021)

In this novel, Alain Farah tells us about his marriage, fictitious of course, even if he succeeds in making us question.

According to Mr. Morin, this is the most accessible book by Mr. Farah. He compares it to those of Michel Tremblay.

When I finished it, I closed it and I was nostalgic for the fact that I could never read it again for the first time.

This book will be adapted this year to the cinema by the director Philippe Falardeau

A coffee with MarieSerge Bouchard (2021)

For Félix Morin, this book contains everything you know about Serge Bouchard; His parents, his Saint-Henri, his relationship to the First Nations, but also Marie, his partner Marie-Christine Lévesque, who died shortly before him, in 2020.

Is this the best test of the last five years? No, but if you want to discover Serge Bouchard, I sincerely think it is one of the very good books for.

Joy exercisesLouise Dupré (2022)

This collection is part of a triptych of poetry. The first two, higher than the flames and the haunted hand, both won the Governor General’s literary prize. He ranked among the finalists.

We really need it today, because it is a book that gives us a weapon against ambient gloom; joyRevenue M. Morrin.

This book, in addition to being fabulous in his writing, is simple to approach.

The poems of this collection are sometimes written in verse and sometimes in prose.

May our joy remainLambert (2022)

For Félix Morin, that our joy remains a summer reading, but not because of its lightness. I recommend the summer, because often, on vacation, we want what lightly. No, this is not that you have to take what lightly is when you are exhausted in the evening, during the week, when you work.

The text begins on a sentence of a page and a half, which does not end and which is of a perfect structure elsewhere. Félix Morin

The book depicts a fictitious society which highlights the deviations that are widening between the ultra -ties and the rest of the population.

Even if he criticizes a lot [les riches]through, he gives us tools to understand them and I find it fascinating.

THE overrun by Félix Morin

Félix Morin also wanted to present two books which, according to him, are overrunthat is to say that they have passed somewhat under the radar.

The first is called self -portrait of another, by Élise Turcotte. This book published in 2023 deals with family, pain and journey.

The second is called the working hill, by Philippe Manevy. He also deals with a family, this time French, through the decades and the tests.

Mr. Morin believes that these two books deserve more attention.