Next Episode

Next Episode
By Hubert Aquin
Published: 1965
Translaited by Sheila Fischman: 2001

Written in 1965 by Hubert Aquin well he was in prison for his involvment with terrorists in Quebec, Next Epsiode, appeares to be largely autobiographical. The novels unnamed narrator is in a Montreal prison and writes down his experiances in Switzerland on a mission to murder a Swiss banker working with the RCMP, for the FLQ. The basic plot is farely straight forward yet Aquin appears to spend most of the novel rambling on about his love for a woman or his love for Quebec and his longing for revolution mixed in with several musings about suicide (ironic as Aquin shot himself in 1977), rather then bother to move the novel forward. Mayhaps it reads better in French or speaks to seperatists but this was one novel that can be passed over.

* out of *****