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"The Goldfish" 1970
From: The Quebec Anthology
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"Le poisson rouge" ("The Goldfish," as Sheila Fischman has translated the tide), first appeared in the anthology Nouvelles du Québec, edited by Katherine Brearley and Rose-Blanche McBride in 1970. A magical story, it shows Carrier’s early fascination with the child-like naivété and wonder through which profound truths are often discovered. It is interesting to trace in Carrier’s work the development of this theme—the adult world seen clearly from a child’s point of view—from this early story to such similar works as Prayers of a Very Wise Child.
Contributors
Roch Carrier
Roch Carrier was born in Sainte-Justine-de-Dorchester on May 13, 1937, and studied at the Collège Saint-Louis in Edmunston, New Brunswick, a city where he also worked as a journalist from 1958 to 1960. He attended the universities of Montreal, Paris, and the Sorbonne, where he received his Ph.D. in literature for a dissertation on Blaise Cendrars, and in 1965 began teaching at the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, south of Montreal. He has since served as president of the annual Salon du Livre in Montreal and as resident dramatist at Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde; he is currently director of the Canada Council in Ottawa.
