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Birth and death are inseparable and recurring themes in Jacques Ferron’s work. As a physician, the author had an intimate knowledge of life’s beginning and of its end. He saw the births he attended as privileged moments in his practice, and as a writer, he would draw on his experience of both birth and death. In this paper, we will show how the doctor goes beyond his clinical experience of these two events and attempts to invest them with meaning. We will focus on three very personal texts: “Credit Due” (“La Créance”), from the book Quince Jam, in which Jacques Ferron stages his own birth, The Cart (La Charrette), a fantastic novel about the death of its own narrator, who could be the author himself; and “Les deux lys,” Ferron’s very last text, a testament in which the author, once again, faces death while returning to his own roots, to the beginning of it all, the point where, for him, everything begins.

Exploring the Limits of the Self: Birth and Death in the Writing of Jacques Ferron