Next Episode (novel)


Next Episode is the debut novel by French Canadian author Hubert Aquin, published in 1965. The novel was translated by Penny Williams in 1967, and again in 2001 by Sheila Fischman.

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.

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Recognition

Prochain épisode 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.