SOURCE: A review of Le Premier quartier de la lune, in Canadian Literature, Vol. 128, Spring, 1991, pp. 229-30.

In the favorable review below, Kroller relates the plot of Le Premier quartier de la lune.

Le Premier quartier de la lune concludes Tremblay's five-volume "Chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal," a monumental achievement which sustains the imagination and historical sweep initiated by La Grosse Femme d'à côté est enceinte from beginning to end. The cover of Le Premier Quartier is adorned by a child's drawing of a cat, smiling craftily like the Cheshire Cat. The similarity with Lewis Carroll's feline is not accidental; Marcel, who reassures himself of his friend's elusive presence by drawing his portrait over and over, suddenly finds his works riddled with holes. Together with Duplessis, the Fates are about to disappear and leave the apparently abandoned house which has been Marcel's refuge for many years. Marcel himself...