Les Sables Mouvants / Shifting Sands - Softcover

Fiction. Bilingual Edition in French and English. Translated from the French by Joseph Jones. This bilingual edition is the first English translation of Aquin's groundbreaking novella. It is also the first time it appears in French, outside of the multi-volume critical edition. In this novella the young Aquin turns away from ordinary narrative towards the signature qualities of his later writing, and documents the narrator's psychological journey from anticipation and impatience to personal apocalypse.

The life and writings of Hubert Aquin (1929-1977) now stand as an emblem of Quebec in transition. His personal situations and his political engagements find expression in resonant literary works where theoretical formal concerns confront assimilated traditions. In 2003 his novel Next Episode was selected as book of the year for CBC's Canada Reads. Translator Joseph Jones lived in Aquin's Montreal during the October Crisis. A thematic quest that has extended over three decades led him to uncover this novella. Joseph Jones lives in Vancouver, BC.