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"In My Condition" 1989
From: The Quebec Anthology
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"Dans mon état," the story translated here by Matt Cohen as "In My Condition," first appeared in XYZ in 1989. Like the stories of Claire Dé, Pellerin’s blend of stream-of-consciousness and dark humour slowly elucidates a bizarre version of the world. In this story, we again come across a sudden twist at the end, in which everything we thought we understood is turned on its head; an experience not unfamiliar to anyone living in modern, urban North America.
Contributors
Gilles Pellerin
Gilles Pellerin, teacher and short-story writer, was born in Shawinigan in 1954 and now lives in Quebec City, where he recently founded the publishing house L'Instant même. In 1988 his story "Le Songe" won first prize in a short-story contest sponsored by L'Office franco-québécois, and that year his first collection of stories, Ni le lieu ni I'heure, won the Grand Prix Logidisque for works of science fiction and fantasy. He has published in many Quebec and international literary journals, including XYZ, Nouvelles nouvelles, Écriture, Possibles, Solaris, and Nouvelles francophones d'aujourd'hui. His most recent short-story collection, Je reviens avec la nuit, appeared in 1992.
