Introduction: Reading Intertextual Networks in Contemporary Québécois Literature Lire les réseaux intertextuels dans la littérature québécoise contemporaine.

The article reports on the evolution of intertextual networks in contemporary Quebecois literature. It is said that the phenomenon of intertextuality is either used as a literary technique or as a technique through which one studies literary works. The phenomenon contradicts Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva's conception that all texts are fundamentally intertextual.