Abstract
Studying Jacques Ferron's Les Confitures de coings in the context created by his other writings, the present essay proposes reading this polysemic work as a double project, a nationalist diptych featuring the night as vehicle of symbol and myth. In the negative panel, the narrator, conflating his personal story with that of the Quebec people, dismisses the dominant anglophone minority personified by his alter ego Frank Archibald Campbell/Frank Scott. In the positive panel, the night itself becomes the metaphor of a people about to take control of its destiny, under the leadership of a hero with impeccable nationalist credentials: Rene Levesque. His nationalization of electricity, giving the province control over an important natural resource, reclaims the night for his people and makes it brighter than the day.
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