Le débutant Ouvrage enrichi de nombreux dessins de Busnel, de deux dessins... et d'un portrait de l'auteur par St-Charles Roman de moeurs du journalisme et de la politique dans la province de Québec

The narrator opens with a humble declaration, a limited edition of three hundred copies signed by a reporter who has spent his life chasing stories in the modest newspapers of Quebec. Within its pages, lively sketches accompany a frank discussion of how journalism and provincial politics have long hidden their true motives beneath polite discourse. The tone is both intimate and critical, offering listeners a chance to hear a voice that claims only truth, even when that truth feels uncomfortable.

In the first act we follow a bright, shy boy named Paul growing up in the parish of Mamelmont, where his favorite teacher becomes the object of a tender, almost reverent crush. His orphaned childhood is shaped by an uncompromising uncle and a gentle aunt, whose contradictory lessons about virtue, work, and culture plant the seeds of his later skepticism toward authority. As his observations of schoolyard rituals give way to early forays into reporting, the story sketches a portrait of a society that, despite the passage of years, still repeats the same patterns of power and persuasion.