"The literary explosion in Quebec produced some of the most original and entertaining fiction in Canada. Anansi presents a major anthology of the best stories by such well-known names as Michel Tremblay, Yves Thériault, Jacques Ferron, Gilles Vigneault, Roch Carrier, and many more. In his introduction Geoff Hancock, former editor of Canadian Fiction Magazine , looks at the forms and ideas that characterize modern Quebec the inner world of fantasy, utopia, and anti-utopia, the comic and the grotesque, the new political concern with feminism and individualism."