It is difficult to cite just a few names from recent times. We know that literature is a matter of patience, that the emergence of a writer is a long-term process. All the more since in Qu bec, as elsewhere, the media have overrun literature. Barring rare exceptions, journalists exhibit extreme indulgence. They praise everything, giving life to a product whose lifespan rarely exceeds a year or usually a month.
Literature is far short of the mark.
At most, we can recognize the trends in writing over the past ten years. We note, for example, that Qu bec once knew the temptation of the text for the text, esoteric, abstract, self-centred, in which commentary on the word counted more than the word. This trend is fading, without dying out altogether. A literature of action which, free of the flaws of lyrical abstraction, has those of uniform realism. From these two apparently opposing movements will no doubt spring the writers of the future.